Lot Essay
We are grateful to Mary Lecroy of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, for identifying the birds in the present painting and the two following lots
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GERRIT MALLEYN* (1753-1816)
Details
GERRIT MALLEYN* (1753-1816)
A Golden Pheasant on a Corinthian Capital attacking a Guinea-Pig, a with Red-Legged Partridge, a female Pheasant and her Chicks by a ruined Column in a Landscape
signed and dated 'G:c Malleÿn/in V: - 1776'--oil on canvas
102½ x 68in. (259 x 173cm.)
A Golden Pheasant on a Corinthian Capital attacking a Guinea-Pig, a with Red-Legged Partridge, a female Pheasant and her Chicks by a ruined Column in a Landscape
signed and dated 'G:c Malleÿn/in V: - 1776'--oil on canvas
102½ x 68in. (259 x 173cm.)
Provenance
Bought in Paris by Ambassador Assis Chateaubriand, circa 1950