Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Peacocks
1683190.2 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
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 82
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
with conte Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Rome, 1926–27, sold to Kress
Samuel H. Kress, New York, 1927
Other works by Melchior d' Hondecoeter
Birds in a park
1686
1686
The menagerie
c. 1690-92
c. 1690-92
Birds in a park
c. 1680-85
c. 1680-85
Birds in a park
c. 1671-80
c. 1671-80
Dog by dead game barking at a bird of prey
1658
1658