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Melchior d'Hondecoeter: A hen, chicks, doves and peacocks beside a stone wall in a landscape  wikidata:Q116895868 reasonator:Q116895868
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 Edit this at Wikidata Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1654–1695
Work location
Utrecht, The Hague (1658–1663), Amsterdam (1663–1695)
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artist QS:P170,Q304411
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Title
English: A hen, chicks, doves and peacocks beside a stone wall in a landscape
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre animal art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: A hen, chicks, doves and peacocks beside a stone wall in a landscape
Date between circa 1660 and circa 1669
date QS:P,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 79 cm (31.1 in); width: 65.1 cm (25.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,79U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,65.1U174728
Object history

Anonymous sale; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 11-14 December 1956, lot 48 (6200 florins). with Sam Nystad, The Hague, from whom purchased in 1983 by the present owners.

29 January 2014: purchased by Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
, at the sale of the collection of Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
, at Christie's, New York City, lot no. 24 (as Melchior d'Hondecoeter)
Inscriptions signed 'M.d Hondekoeter.' (center left, on the wall)
References Q. Buvelot et al., Tableaux Flamands et Hollandais du Musée Fabre de Montpellier, Paris and Montpellier, 1998, pp. 73-74, 76, under no. 20.
Source/Photographer http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/melchior-dhondecoeter-a-hen-5765875-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5765875&sid=5eb7cd33-b157-4e89-b017-3fa6b7603407
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