Cockerel, Hens and Chicks
after Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Utrecht 1636 - Amsterdam 1695)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
660 x 780 mm
Order this imageCollection
Chartwell, Kent
NT 1102463
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Cockerel, Hens and Chicks, after Melchior de Hondecoeter (Utrecht 1636 – Amsterdam 1695). A cockerel, hens, chicks and other poultry beside a wooden hutch with landscape beyond, after Melchior de Hondecoeter, Der Friede im Hühnerhof, 1688 (Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe inv.no. 344).
Provenance
Listed in 1949 Chartwell Inventory, Dining Room, p. 96, 'After HONDECOETER - An oil painting - Hens and cockerels, pigeons, etc. […]'; listed in 1965-6 Chartwell Inventory, Studio, p. 71, 'M.D. HONDECOETER / A cockerel, hen and other poultry in a landscape'.
Makers and roles
after Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Utrecht 1636 - Amsterdam 1695), artist previously catalogued as style of Marmaduke Cradock (Somerset c.1660 - London 1717), artist