Saturday, November 29, 2025

 Melchior d'Hondecoeter
(1636 - 1695)
 

Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. Hondecoeter's paintings featured geese (brent goose, Egyptian goose and red-breasted goose), fieldfares, partridges, pigeons, ducks, northern cardinal, magpies and peacocks, but also African grey crowned cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Indonesian yellow-crested cockatoos, an Indonesian purple-naped lory and grey-headed lovebirds from Madagascar. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_d'Hondecoeter


The Menagerie
c. 1690
Oil on canvas
135 x 116.5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/De-menagerie--85b9126eea1ac505a9e362ec827feb02

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 Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636 - 1695)   Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. ...