Dog Fight
Artist
Jan Baptist Weenix, the Elder
(Dutch, 1621 - 1660)
Date1658
Object number58.0050
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions60 1/4 × 86 3/8 in. (153.1 × 219.4 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Collections
On View
Not on viewDescriptionIn the windswept Dutch countryside, a chained hunting dog ferociously defends his meal—a horse’s head, liver, and intestines—from two intruders. Storm clouds gather in the distance over hunters setting out from a castle, heightening the drama of the painting’s subject. Weenix painted this late work in Utrecht, not far from De Haar Castle (depicted in the background). When this work entered the collection, a piece of red cloth was painted over the horse’s severed head. Once this restoration was removed, the picture’s true emotional charge came to the surface.
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