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Melchior d'Hondecoeter: Birds disturbed by a falcon  wikidata:Q133797115 reasonator:Q133797115
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)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q304411
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Birds disturbed by a falcon
label QS:Len,"Birds disturbed by a falcon"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: A peacock and peahen, together with a cockerel and other poultry, a swallow, pigeon and hoopoe beside a fountain in a garden, all disturbed by the arrival of a falcon
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 137.1 cm (53.9 in); width: 168.2 cm (66.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,137.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,168.2U174728
Object history
  • Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 December 1965, lot 76, for £2,600 to Spiller;
  • With W.H. Patterson, London, December 1999;
  • With Richard Green, London;
  • by 4 December 2013
    date QS:P,+2013-12-04T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2013-12-04T00:00:00Z/11
    : acquired by Private collection
    institution QS:P195,Q768717
    , from Richard Green (dealer), London
  • 4 December 2013: purchased by unsold, at the sale of the collection of Private collection
    institution QS:P195,Q768717
    , at Sotheby's, London, lot no. 37 (as Melchior d'Hondecoeter)
References

Gustav Henrik Vilhelm Upmark, Die Architektur der Renaissance in Schweden, 1530-1760, 1900, p. 125.

Inv. A2325. Exhibited Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Melchior d'Hondecoeter 1636-1695, 18 September 2010 - 2 January 2011, no. 38.
Source/Photographer http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l13036/lot.37.html
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