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A Rooster and Turkey Fighting
Melchior d'Hondecoeterc. 1680
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
One of the most fashionable artists of his time, Hondecoeter specialized in paintings of domestic and exotic birds, and other animals. Here the composition is enlivened by the swirl and excitement of the fighting rooster and turkey, set in
a garden with classical architecture. A large picture like this must have been placed high over a fireplace in a rich Amsterdam house.
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- Title: A Rooster and Turkey Fighting
- Creator: Melchior de Hondecoeter (Dutch, 1636-1695)
- Date Created: c. 1680
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 164.5 x 193 x 10 cm (64 3/4 x 76 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 137.2 x 166.4 cm (54 x 65 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Charles Fairfax Murray, London (Paris sale 1914)., Frances Roche (New York sale 1948)., (Harari & Johns, London, and Newhouse Gallery, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1986.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.59
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: signed upper center: M C Hondecoeter
- Department: European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Netherlands, 17th century
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
- Accession Number: 1986.59
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