A Cock Hens and Chicks

A Cock Hens and Chicks

Artist: Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Dutch, 1636 - 1695)

Original Dimensions: 33 5/8" x 43 1/4"

Location: National Gallery of Art, London

About Artwork: (About 1668-70) "Melchior d‘Hondecoeter specialised in large decorative paintings of birds, often mixing domestic and ornamental fowl with wild ones, as he does in this picture. A wild pigeon perches on a wooden yoke that leans against an overturned wicker basket, while a finch wings its way towards it. The exotic chickens are probably Polish – in spite of their name, a breed first recorded in the Netherlands and established there by the seventeenth century. They were bred for their eggs but also for their colours and extravagant appearance. Such a picture would have been highly prized for its detailed representation of the fowl, and as an idealised view of life on a farm. Although d’Hondecoeter drew and sketched from life, he painted in the studio – common practice among seventeenth-century Dutch artists. He may have also worked from birds preserved by taxidermy, a means of preparing, stuffing and mounting the skins of animals with a lifelike effect." - (National Gallery of Art, London)

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