A peasant woman plucking a fowl, other poultry in the foreground

Details

Attributed to Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Utrecht 1636-1695 Amsterdam)
A peasant woman plucking a fowl, other poultry in the foreground
with number '141' (verso)
black chalk, grey wash
19 x 29.4 cm.; and eight further drawings:
a. Dutch School, 18th Century, Design for an overmantle decoration (pl. 15)
b. Attributed to Melchior d' Hondecoeter (1636-1695), Study of a cockerel (pl. 13)
c. Dutch School, 18th Century, A Marbled White butterfly and its underside, A Black-Veined White butterfly and its underside; and A Fritillary (Fritillaria Meleagris) (pl. 15) (3), and
d. Dutch School, 17th Century, Studies of Beetles (three on one mount) (pl. 15)
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Lot Essay

The loose and spontaneous handling of the chalk and the freely applied grey wash are closely comparable to those in Two fighting cocks by d'Hondecoeter in the Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle (A. Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850, Cologne, Weimar and Vienna, 2011, III, no. 449).

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