Adriaen van Utrecht (1599-1653)

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Adriaen van Utrecht (1599-1653)

A Peacock, a Peahen, Cockerels, Hens, Ducks, Ducklings and Chicks in a Farmyard, a Peasant Boy coming to feed them at a Farmhouse Door beyond
signed and dated 'Adriaen van Wtrecht fe 1650'

60½ x 81 3/8in. (153.8 x 206.8cm.)

Provenance

(Probably) M. Bergerat; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 30 Jan. 1933, lot 21 (described as Une Cour de Ferme, 151 x 205cm.)
M. Wolff, Paris, 1941

Literature

E. Greindl in the catalogue of the exhibition, La Siècle de Rubens, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, 15 Oct. - 12 Dec. 1965, p. 270, under no. 286

Lot Essay

A small version on panel (39 x 57cm.), also signed and dated 1650, is in the Kunstmuseum, Basel (Greindl, loc. cit., no. 286, illustrated, where it is suggested that it is a reduction rather than a preparatory study)

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