Still Life with Peacocks

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Still Life with Peacocks

Creator

Rembrandt

Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669) · 1606–1669

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Date
c. 1639
Medium
canvas, oil paint (paint)
Institution
Rijksmuseum
Object ID
SK-A-3981

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In Rembrandt’s time, peacocks were eaten by the well-to-do: the meat was incorporated into meat pies, among other dishes. Immediately after being killed, the birds were hung to bleed out, as Rembrandt shows us in this storeroom. He was doubtless captivated by the plumage’s splendid marks, the riot of colours: blue, green and yellow ochre.

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