Artwork description as provided by the museum's website (© - by Mauritshuis - Mauritshuis)
Painted for a room in the 'Garnalendoelen' (a civic guard room) in Amsterdam; St Sebastiaansdoelen, Amsterdam; purchased, 1821; on long-term loan to Rijksmuseum Twente, Enschede, since 2016
Background information on the artwork
| Name of the work of art: | "Dead Swan" |
| Classification: | painting |
| General term: | classic art |
| Century: | 18th century |
| Artwork year: | 1719 |
| Approximate age of artwork: | 300 years |
| Artwork original medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size of the original artwork: | height: 245,5 cm width: 294 cm |
| Signature: | signed: J. Weenix fc |
| Exhibited in: | Mauritshuis |
| Museum location: | The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands |
| Web URL: | www.mauritshuis.nl |
| License type of artwork: | public domain |
| Courtesy of: | Mauritshuis, The Hague |
| Artwork creditline: | Painted for a room in the 'Garnalendoelen' (a civic guard room) in Amsterdam; St Sebastiaansdoelen, Amsterdam; purchased, 1821; on long-term loan to Rijksmuseum Twente, Enschede, since 2016 |
Contextual artist data
| Artist: | Jan Weenix |
| Alias names: | Weeninx Jan, Jean Véeninx fils, Weenir, Young Weenix, Jan Weeninx de jonge, Jan Weninks, de Jonge Weeninx, Jan Weenix, de jonge Wenix, jongh Wenings, Jan Weninx d'jonge, jonge Wenincx, Veeninx le fils, Jan Weninx, Jan Weeninx, jonge Weeninx, Woeninx Jan, d'Heer Weeninx, Jan Wenix, Weenix Jan, Weninx de Jonge, J. Weninx, Wenincx, John Weenix the Younger, Weeninx the Younger, Weenix Jan the younger, de Jonge Weninx |
| Gender: | male |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Professions of the artist: | painter |
| Home country: | the Netherlands |
| Classification: | old master |
| Styles: | Baroque |
| Lifetime: | 78 years |
| Birth year: | 1641 |
| Place of birth: | Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands |
| Year died: | 1719 |
| Deceased in (place): | Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands |
Structured item information
| Article type: | art print |
| Reproduction: | reproduction in digital format |
| Manufacturing method: | UV direct print |
| Origin of the product: | manufactured in Germany |
| Stock type: | on demand production |
| Intended product usage: | home design, wall décor |
| Alignment: | landscape alignment |
| Aspect ratio: | 1.2 : 1 length : width |
| Implication: | the length is 20% longer than the width |
| Available options: | poster print (canvas paper), metal print (aluminium dibond), canvas print, acrylic glass print (with real glass coating) |
| Canvas on stretcher frame (canvas print) variants: | 60x50cm - 24x20", 120x100cm - 47x39", 180x150cm - 71x59" |
| Acrylic glass print (with real glass coating) size options: | 60x50cm - 24x20", 120x100cm - 47x39", 180x150cm - 71x59" |
| Poster print (canvas paper): | 60x50cm - 24x20", 120x100cm - 47x39" |
| Aluminium dibond print (aluminium material): | 60x50cm - 24x20", 120x100cm - 47x39" |
| Picture frame: | no frame |
Which is your favorite material?
In the dropdown lists next to the product you can select a material and a sizeaccording to your personal preferences. Therefore, we allow you to choose among the following options:
- Aluminium print (aluminium dibond): Aluminium Dibond prints are metal prints with an impressive effect of depth. For the Direct Aluminium Dibond option, we print the favorite artpiece on the aluminium surface. The white and bright components of the original work of art shine with a silk gloss but without glow. Colors are luminous in the highest definition, details appear clear and crisp. This UV print on aluminium is the most popular entry-level product and is an extremely sophisticated way to display art, as it draws focus on the image.
- Print on glossy acrylic glass: A glossy print on acrylic glass, often named a UV print on plexiglass, will change the artwork into home decoration. The artwork is made with the help of state-of-the-art UV direct print technology. With an acrylic glass fine art print contrasts and small details become visible thanks to the delicate gradation. The acrylic glass protects your custom art replica against light and external influences for decades.
- The canvas print: A UV printed canvas applied on a wooden stretcher frame. A canvas produces the extra impression of three dimensionality. In addition to that, a canvas creates a soft and enjoyable ambience. Your canvas of your favorite masterpiece will allow you to transform your own art print into a large size artwork like you know from galleries. Canvas prints are relatively low in weight. That means, it is easy and straightforward to hang up your Canvas print without the help of additional wall-mounts. That is why, canvas prints are suited for all kinds of walls.
- The poster print (canvas material): Our poster print is a printed canvas with a nice surface texture. The print poster is excellently suited for placing the art copy with a custom-made frame. Please note, that depending on the size of the poster we add a white margin between 2-6cm round about the work of art to facilitate the framing with your custom frame.
Dead Swan as an art print
This classic art artpiece with the title Dead Swan was painted by Jan Weenix. The painting measures the size: height: 245,5 cm width: 294 cm | height: 96,7 in width: 115,7 in and was painted with the technique oil on canvas. "Signed: J. Weenix fc" is the painting's original inscription. This artpiece is part of the Mauritshuis's digital art collection, which the Mauritshuis is home to the best artworks of Dutch painting of the seventeenth century. We are happy to mention that this public domain masterpiece is provided with courtesy of Mauritshuis, The Hague. The creditline of the artpiece is the following: Painted for a room in the 'Garnalendoelen' (a civic guard room) in Amsterdam; St Sebastiaansdoelen, Amsterdam; purchased, 1821; on long-term loan to Rijksmuseum Twente, Enschede, since 2016. Besides this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a side ratio of 1.2 : 1, which means that the length is 20% longer than the width. Jan Weenix was a painter, whose art style can be attributed primarily to Baroque. The Dutch painter lived for 78 years, born in 1641 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands and died in 1719 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
Disclaimer: We try the best we can to depict the art products in as much detail as possible and to exhibit them visually on the various product detail pages. However, the colors of the printing material, as well as the print result might diverge slightly from the image on the device's monitor. Depending on the settings of your screen and the quality of the surface, not all color pigments will be printed one hundret percent realistically. Because all the art reproductions are processed and printed manually, there might also be minor variations in the motif's exact position and the size.
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