Melchior de Hondecoeter (1636-1695)

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

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Melchior de Hondecoeter (1636-1695)

A Pelican, a Crowned Crane, a Cassowary, a Flamingo, a Leadbetter's Cockatoo, a Shelduck, a Grebe, a Red-breasted Goose, a Wigeon, a Muscovy Duck, a Chough, an Egyptian Goose, a Guinea Fowl and a Black Curacao at a Pool in a Park

signed 'M d Hondeco.ter'

60½ x 73 3/8in. (153.5 x 186.2cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. S. H. Brooksbank (+), Kentish Mansions, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 1944
Private Collection, Los Angeles; Christie's, New York, 12 June 1981, lot 282 ($290,000)

Lot Essay

The left part of the composition, with the four large birds, the grebe, the red-breasted goose, the wigeon and the floating feather, as well as the head of the muscovy duck on the right, recur in Hondecoeter's smaller (159 x 144cm.), upright picture in the Rijksmuseum known as 'The Floating Feather'

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