Melchior d'Hondecoeter - Peacocks



Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Peacocks
1683
190.2 x 134.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated center right: MDHondecoeter. / AN (AN in monogram) 1683
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Samuel H. Kress, 1927


Provenance

?Cornelis Sebille Roos, Amsterdam, until 1820
his sale, Amsterdam, 28 August 1820, nr. 47, to C.F. Roos
?with Cornelis François Roos, Amsterdam, from 1820
with H.M. Clark, London, until 1926, sold to Colnaghi
with Colnaghi, London, 1926, sold to Contini-Bonacossi
conte Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Rome, 1926–27, sold to Kress
Samuel H. Kress, New York, 1927

External links

RKD 185230
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 27.250.1

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