Still Life with Dead Game and Fruit beside a Garden Vase, with a Monkey, a Dog and Two Pigeons; in the Background Rijksdorp near Wassenaar, the Estate of Jonkheer Jacob Emmery, Baron of Wassenaar

This 1714 monumental canvas at the Rijksmuseum is among the most complex and ambitious works in Weenix's entire output — combining dead game, fruit, a garden vase, a monkey, a dog, two pigeons, and a specific estate background into a single encyclopaedic composition. The estate of Rijksdorp near Wassenaar, owned by Jonkheer Jacob Emmery, Baron of Wassenaar, is identifiable in the background, confirming this as both a trophy painting and a property portrait commissioned by a specific aristocratic patron. Weenix had painted a similar subject for the same estate in 1700 (also in the Rijksmuseum), suggesting a sustained relationship with the estate's owners across more than a decade. The encyclopaedic ambition of this 1714 work — including virtually every element of the genre within a single composition — may represent a deliberate summation of Weenix's achievement, painted just two years before his death in 1716.

The compositional challenge of organising so many disparate elements — dead game, live animals, fruit, architecture, and landscape — into a coherent picture required Weenix's most sophisticated spatial thinking. A raised terrace or plinth foreground receives the central game arrangement, while the monkey and dog flank it, the vase provides vertical punctuation, and the estate landscape recedes behind. Each texture — feather, fur, fruit skin, stone, porcelain — is handled with individual technical approaches that demonstrate the full range of Weenix's capabilities.