# Departure of an Oriental Entourage [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WEENIX, Jan Baptist]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 123 x 175 cm ## Commentary Jan Baptist Weenix was a versatile Italianate painter. He is best known for his views of the Campagna with emphasis on a mother and child seen against massive classical ruins, and fanciful Mediterranean seaports, but he also painted histories, portraits, and indoor genre scenes as well as some remarkable still-lifes with dead game. His son and pupil Jan Weenix made a speciality of pictures of hunting trophies. Jan Baptist Weenix arrived in Rome in 1642-43 where he enjoyed the patronage of 'Kardinaal Pamfilio', who has been variously identified as Cardinal Giovanni Battista Pamphilj, who became Pope Innocent X in 1644, and as the Pope's nephew Cardinal Camillo Pamphilj. After he returned to Holland in 1646-47 he invariably signed himself Gio\[vanni\] Batt\[ist\]a Weenix. His adoption of the Italian translation of his Christian name and patronymic may have been in honour of Innocent X who gave him at least one commission. ## Related artworks - [Ancient Ruins \(detail\)]() - [Ancient Ruins]() - [Dead Partridge]() - [Hound with a Joint of Meat and a Cat Looking On]() - [The Ford in the River]() - [The Roman Tinker]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()