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Melchior d'Hondecoeter: A Cockerel, a Turkey, Hens and Chickens in a Farmyard  wikidata:Q66050071 reasonator:Q66050071
Artist
Melchior d'Hondecoeter  (1636–1695)  wikidata:Q304411
 
Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Alternative names
de Hondecoeter, d'Hondecoutre, de Hondecoutre,
d'Hondekoeter, de Hondekoeter, d'Hondekoote, d'Hondekooten
Description Dutch painter, drawer, printmaker and ornamental painter
Date of birth/death 1636 Edit this at Wikidata 3 April 1695 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Utrecht Amsterdam
Work period 1654–1695
Work location
Utrecht, The Hague (1658–1663), Amsterdam (1663–1695)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q304411
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
English: A Cockerel, a Turkey, Hens and Chickens in a Farmyard
Deutsch: Ein Hahn, eine Pute, Hühner und Küken auf einem Bauernhof
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 99.4 cm (39.1 in); width: 80.3 cm (31.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,99.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,80.3U174728
Object history With Kees Hermsen, The Hague, 1934;. Anonymous sale, Wijnmalen Brandt Corstius, Amsterdam;. Anonymous sale, Geneva, Galerie Moos, 27 October 1934, lot 146 (reproduced plate XXXII in the catalogue);. Lebret sale, Dordrecht, Mak, 10 November 1936, lot 86;. With W. Paech, Amsterdam, before 1940;. Acquired for the present collection by 1967.
Exhibition history Amsterdam, Amsterdams Historisch Museum, 17e-eeuwse schilderijen uit de Verzameling Willem Russell, between 20 June 1970 and 13 September 1970
date QS:P,+1970-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1970-06-20T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1970-09-13T00:00:00Z/11
, no. 42.
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Signature center left:

M· D· hondecoeter
References E. Brochhagen and B. Knüttel, Alte Pinakothek München, Katalog III. Holländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1967, p. 35, under cat. no. 401 (with incorrect sale date);. S. Levie, in 17e-eeuwse schilderijen uit de Verzameling Willem Russell, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1970, p. 60, cat. no. 42, reproduced p. 61.
Source/Photographer Sotheby's

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