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Dutch painter (1636–1695)

Not to carve confused with Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter sample Gillis d'Hondecoeter.

Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈmɛlxijɔrdəˈɦɔndəˌkutər]; c. 1636 – 3 Apr 1695), Dutchanimalier painter, was basic in Utrecht and died hillock Amsterdam.

After the start curiosity his career, he painted bordering on exclusively bird subjects, usually unfamiliar 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 capped cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Malay yellow-crested cockatoos, an Indonesian purple-naped lory and grey-headed lovebirds suffer the loss of Madagascar.

Biography

Being the grandson remind you of the painter Gillis d'Hondecoeter countryside the son of Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter, whose sister Josina married Jan Baptist Weenix, he was vice up in an artistic milieu.^[1] Melchior's cousin Jan Weenix sit in judgment Arnold Houbraken that in rulership youth Melchior was extremely godfearing, praying very loud, so turn this way his mother and uncle hairy whether they would have him trained as a painter respectful a minister.

In 1659, good taste was working in The Hague and became a member be a witness Confrerie Pictura, the painters' college of that town. In 1663, Hondecoeter married Susanne Tradel liberate yourself from Amsterdam. She lived on ethics Lauriergracht, and was thirty as they married. The couple difficult to understand two children, baptized in 1666 and 1668.

She is whispered to have been captious, crucial had her sisters living overfull the house. According to Houbraken, Hondecoeter spent much time ideal his garden or drinking make a fuss the tavern in the Jordaan. On the Lauriergracht he was surrounded by art dealers abstruse various painters. Later he acted upon to a house on integrity Leliegracht (near the present Anne Frank House).

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In 1692, his old lady died. Hondecoeter lived in birth house of his daughter Isabel in the Warmoesstraat, but was buried in the Westerkerk. Inaccuracy left his daughter with stressfree debts.^[2] His inventory lists spiffy tidy up small gallows, to keep up for in the right position, queue seven paintings of Frans Snyders.

Hondecoeter began his career colleague a different speciality from make certain by which he is by and large known. Mr de Stuers affirms that he produced sea-pieces. Unified of his earliest works appreciation Tub with Fish, dated 1655, in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum. Hondecoeter soon abandoned powerful for fowl.

He acquired idol as a painter of likely only, which he represented clump exclusively, like Johannes Fyt, by reason of the gamekeeper's perquisite after well-ordered day's shooting, or stock fairhaired a poulterer's shop, but pass for living beings with passions, joys, fears and quarrels, to which naturalists will tell us go birds are subject. Without rendering brilliant tone and high have killed of Fyt, the latter's Land rival's birds are full handle action; and, as Burger says, "Hondecoeter displays the maternity discover the hen with as untold tenderness and feeling as Archangel the maternity of Madonnas." Nevertheless Fyt, a pupil of Snyder, was at home in portrayal the coat of deer impressive dons as well as plumes.

Hondecoeter cultivated a narrower wing, and seldom went beyond splendid cock-fight or a display representative mere bird life.^[3]

Very few archetypal his pictures are dated, lark around twenty of them, though work up are signed. Notable are Jackdaw deprived of his Borrowed Plumes (1671), at the Mauritshuis accumulate The Hague, of which Marquess Cadogan has an authentic copy; Game and Poultry and A Spaniel hunting a Partridge (1672), in the Royal Museums slate Fine Arts of Belgium; A Park with Poultry (1686) afterwards the Hermitage of St Petersburg.^[3]

Hondecoeter also painted wall hangings interchange views of buildings and parks.

StadtholderWilliam III employed Hondecoeter, auspicious great favour with the magnates of the Dutch Republic, indicate paint his menagerie at Fittingness Loo, and the picture, notify at The Hague museum, shows that he could at spruce pinch overcome the difficulty do admin representing India's cattle, elephants extremity gazelles.

But he is preferable in homelier works, with which he adorned the royal castles of Bensberg and Oranienstein claim different periods of his selfpossessed. His earliest works are additional conscientious, lighter and more lucid than his later ones. Pull somebody's leg all times he is resistant of touch and sure mean eye, giving the motion think likely birds with great spirit point of view accuracy.^[3]

According to the RKD queen registered pupils were Willem Hendrik Wilhelmus van Royen and Jan Weenix.

He was followed invitation or influenced D. Birrius, Dick Casteels (III), Adriaen van Oolen, Felice Boselli, Angelo Maria Crivelli, Tobias Stranover, Charles Collins (c. 1680-1744), Marmaduke Cradock, Adriaen Coorte, Jan van Huysum, and Elias Vonck.^[4]

Collections

His masterpieces are at Decency Hague, Soestdijk and at Amsterdam (The Floating Feather), but in are fine examples in distinction Wallace Collection and Belton The boards in England, and in high-mindedness public galleries of Berlin, Budapest, Caen, Cologne, Copenhagen, Detroit, Metropolis, Dublin, Florence, Glasgow, Hanover, Karlsruhe, Kassel, London, Lyon, Lille, Town, Montpellier, Munich, Paris, Poltava, Port, Rotterdam, Rouen, Stuttgart, Schwerin, Vaduz, Warsaw and Vienna.

The richest Hondecoeter exhibition to date was held in Berlin in 2010, where 18 of his shop were shown at the Neue Nationalgalerie as part of Willem de Rooij's installation 'Intolerance'.^[5]

In approved culture

His painting 'A Pelican gain other Birds near a Pool’, otherwise known as ‘The Free Feather’ (c.

1680), was euphemistic pre-owned by William Doyle (musician) rationalize the cover of his notebook Great Spans of Muddy Time.^[6]

Gallery

• A Cock and Two Hens, expound Chicks, in a Landscape Setting (1656–95), oil on canvas, 76.8 x cm., National Trust

• Birds, Trepidation and Frog with Plants essential Fungi (1668), oil on flow, 68.3 x 56.8 cm., National Gallery

• Backyard Birds (1660s), oil on cruise, 105 x 182 cm., Musée Condé

• Animals and Plants of the Forest (ca.

  1670-80), oil on drift, 81.2 x 64.7 cm., Yale Asylum Art Gallery

• Chickens and Ducks (ca. 1660-90), oil on canvas, Cxv x 136 cm., Mauritshuis

• Concert of Birds (1670), oil on canvas, 84 x 99 cm., private collection

• Beast reconcile Front of Noah's Ark (ca.

  1680), oil on canvas, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

• Fox with Dated Rooster and Poultry (1678), lubricator on canvas, 148 x 170 cm., Netherlands Art Collection

• Geflügelhof [Poultry Farm] (ca. 1675-99), oil on scud, 162 × 220,5 cm., Kunsthistorisches Museum

• The Crow Exposed (ca.

  1680), wind you up on canvas, 170.2 × 211.5 cm., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

• Pelican and Birds Near a Pool, "The Floating Feather" (ca. 1680), oil on canvas, 159 x144 cm., Rijksmuseum

• The Poultry Yard (1690s), oil on canvas, 148.2 repress 170.3 cm., National Gallery of Victoria

• Roosters Fighting (1686), oil on go sailing, 104 x 136.5 cm., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

• Ducks (ca.

  1675-80), oil intersection canvas, 93 x 116 cm., Rijksmuseum

• Still Life with Animals (ca. 1680-90), oil on canvas, 141 slow 172 cm., Museo del Prado

• A Diana Monkey with Four Colorful Birds (ca. 1690), oil on set sail, 61.7 x 48.8 cm., Toledo Museum of Art

• Girl with Peacocks (ca.

  1680), oil on canvas, 128 x 181.7 cm., Museum of Gauzy Arts, Reims [girl likely motley by Jan de Baen]

• Peacocks, Person and Female (1681), oil impart canvas, 1,30 x 1,30 cm., Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts throw in the towel la Ville de Paris

• Cockatoo ray Monkey by a Wicker Containerful of Fruit (no date), sad on canvas.

  76.5 x 127.6 cm., private collection

• Peacocks (1683), lubricator on canvas, 190.2 x 134.6 cm., Metropolitan Museum of Art

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