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- The Threatened Swan (Dutch: De bedreigde zwaan)[1] is an oil painting of a mute swan made around 1650 by Dutch Golden Age painter Jan Asselijn.
- The Threatened Swan by Jan Asselijn was created in 1652. The painting is in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
- The life-size depiction of the threatened swan is an animal depiction by Asselijn, who was mainly known for landscape paintings and folk life paintings.
- The artist has rendered the swan from a low vantage point, so that it appears even larger. Jan Asselijn owes his fame primarily to his Italianizing landscapes.
- “The Threatened Swan” is an exceptional masterwork painted by Jan Asselijn, one of the most famous artists of the Dutch Golden Age.
- These themes are reflected in some of the major paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, especially in Jan Asselijn’s Threatened Swan.
- From Asselijn's Wikipedia page: One of his paintings, The Threatened Swan, which portrays a swan aggressively defending its nest, became a symbol of...
- The Threatened Swan by Jan Asselijn c. 1650 is an oil painting that depicts a swan as it defends its nest from a dog looking for some food.
- The swan fiercely defends its nest against a dog. It’s an impressive work by Jan Asselijn and one of the most famous paintings in the Gallery of Honour.
