Artist
Melchior d' Hondecoeter
Dutch, 1636–1695
Melchior d' Hondecoeter was a Dutch Dutch Golden Age painter. 55 works are cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum, most of them oil paintings. Melchior d' Hondecoeter was born in Utrecht.
Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Dutch pronunciation:; c. 1636 – 3 April 1695), Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. Hondecoeter's paintings featured geese (brent goose, Egyptian goose and red-breasted goose), fieldfares, partridges, pigeons, ducks, northern cardinal, magpies and peacocks, but also African grey crowned cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Indonesian yellow-crested cockatoos, an Indonesian purple-naped lory and grey-headed lovebirds from Madagascar.
Works by Melchior d' Hondecoeter
Peacocks
The Floating Feather
A Rooster and Turkey Fighting
Birds on a balustrade
A Hen with Peacocks and a Turkey
Poultry-yard
Poultry and ducks in a park
Hunting Trophies
Birds in a Park
A hunter's bag
A Hunter’s Bag on a Terrace
A Hunter’s Bag near a Tree Stump with a Magpie, Known as ‘The Contemplative Magpie’
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