Jan van Kessel I* (1626-1679)
Jan van Kessel I* (1626-1679)

A Cockerel, a Turkey, a Cockatoo, Parrots and other Birds in a Landscape, a City beyond

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Jan van Kessel I* (1626-1679)
Kessel I, J.
A Cockerel, a Turkey, a Cockatoo, Parrots and other Birds in a Landscape, a City beyond
signed 'I.V. Kessel.f.'
oil on copper
7 x 9in. (18.4 x 24.2cm.)

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Mr. Fred G. Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie for confirming the attribution of the present painting and suggesting a date in the 1660s. It is related to the series of thirty-nine copper panels by van Kessel of The Four Parts of the World in the Museo del Prado, Madrid (Inv. no. 1554).