Melchior de Hondecoeter Original Antique Baroque Dutch Golden Age Flemish Old Master Amsterdam Netherlands Oil Painting of a Belgian Rooster
Original, antique Dutch Golden Age Old Master oil painting on canvas, attributed to Dutch animalier, Melchior de Hondecoeter.
Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈɦɔndəˌkutər]; c. 1636 – 3 April 1695), a 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.
Comparable paintings by Melchior de Hondecoeter/ Online References:
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/rabbits-a-cockerel-and-a-hen-with-a-landscape-background-7821
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/fowl-47006/search/actor:de-hondecoeter-melchior-16361695/page/1/view_as/grid
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-cockerel-with-other-birds-209719/search/actor:de-hondecoeter-melchior-16361695/page/1/view_as/grid
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/two-fowls-and-ducks-on-a-pond-47010/search/actor:de-hondecoeter-melchior-16361695/page/1/view_as/grid
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/two-cocks-fighting-131066/search/actor:de-hondecoeter-melchior-16361695/page/3
Belgian Roosters tend to be very distinct, in physical attributes and characteristics:
https://br.pinterest.com/pin/245868460892742229/?lp=true
Melchior de Hondecoeter, attributed to
(1663-1692)
Dutch Golden Age, Old Master
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dutch Animalier
Belgian Rooster
Oil on Canvas
Painting measures approximately 9.75" X 14.50"
Estimated to have been created approximately 1672
Painting is in good condition for age, with no overpaints, or previous restorations. All paint is original to the painting. There is an impression, as shown in one of the images, from the stretcher bar, impressed upon the canvas. The painting is currently unframed. Please review all images.
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