Painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn “Still Life with a Peacock”. Still life size 145 x 135,5 cm, wood, oil. Rembrandt could not help but pay tribute to the still-life genre that was widespread and fashionable in Holland at that time.
The painting “Still Life with a Peacock” is one of the few works of the painter in this genre, but Rembrandt has achieved remarkable psychologism in it. Actually, the artist’s striving for psychologism, for expressiveness and even some kind of exaggerated image specificity was praised around 1630 using the example of Judas Konstantin Huygens, a writer and statesman in the service of the Orange Dukes: hope for him, only in the face, probably still lurking a shadow of hope… this body trembling with pitiful trembling is what I prefer to the good taste of all times. “