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Two Peacocks Threatening a Hen with Chicks, Known as ‘The Threatened Hen’
Hondecoeter, Melchior d'1681
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hondecoeter enlivened his bird paintings with little vignettes. Here the focus is on the hen protecting her chicks from the large and intimidating peacocks.
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- Title: Two Peacocks Threatening a Hen with Chicks, Known as ‘The Threatened Hen’
- Creator: Hondecoeter, Melchior d'
- Date Created: 1681
- Physical Dimensions: doek
- Subject Keywords: diervoorstelling, zwarte kroonkraanvogel
- Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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