Property of an East Coast Private Collector
Melchior d'Hondecoeter
A peacock and a peahen on a stone parapet in a garden, surrounded by ducks and other ornamental fowl, before a grand palace
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Property of an East Coast Private Collector
Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Utrecht 1636 - 1695 Amsterdam
A peacock and a peahen on a stone parapet in a garden, surrounded by ducks and other ornamental fowl, before a grand palace
signed and dated lower right: M d Hondecoeter. 1677
oil on canvas
canvas: 96⅜ by 77⅝ in.; 244.8 by 197.2 cm.
framed: 105½ by 84⅞ in.; 268 by 215.6 cm.
Please note that this painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Melchior de Hondecoeter currently in preparation by Joy Kearney, to whom we are grateful.
Louise Auguste Elisabeth Marie Colette de Montmorency, Princess de Vaudémont (1763-1833), by 1818 (according to the 1895 Clifden sale catalogue);
Henry George Agar-Ellis, 4th Viscount Clifden (1863-1895);
His sale, London, Robinson & Fisher, 21 May 1895, lot 793 (the highest price of the sale, selling for 4,150 guineas, to Davis);
Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson (1840-1929);
His sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 1923, lot 65 (to Martin);
Colonel Michael Alexander Wilsone Swinfen-Broun JP (1858-1948);
His sale, London, Christie's 10 December 1948, lot 96;
Robert Wylie Lloyd (1868-1958), by 1952;
His sale, London, Christie's, 29 May 1959, lot 78;
Private collection, England;
With Thomas Agnew & Son Ltd., London, by 1980;
Anonymous sale ("Property of a Gentleman of Title"), New York, Christie's, 15 January 1986, lot 162;
Where acquired.
Henry George Agar-Ellis, 4th Viscount Clifden (1863-1895);
His sale, London, Robinson & Fisher, 21 May 1895, lot 793 (the highest price of the sale, selling for 4,150 guineas, to Davis);
Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson (1840-1929);
His sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 1923, lot 65 (to Martin);
Colonel Michael Alexander Wilsone Swinfen-Broun JP (1858-1948);
His sale, London, Christie's 10 December 1948, lot 96;
Robert Wylie Lloyd (1868-1958), by 1952;
His sale, London, Christie's, 29 May 1959, lot 78;
Private collection, England;
With Thomas Agnew & Son Ltd., London, by 1980;
Anonymous sale ("Property of a Gentleman of Title"), New York, Christie's, 15 January 1986, lot 162;
Where acquired.
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Dutch Pictures 1450-1750, November 1952 - March 1953, no. 429 (lent by Robert Wylie Lloyd);
London, Thos. Agnew and Son Ltd., Old Master Paintings and Drawings: Autumn Exhibition, 21 October - 12 December 1980, no. 8.
London, Thos. Agnew and Son Ltd., Old Master Paintings and Drawings: Autumn Exhibition, 21 October - 12 December 1980, no. 8.
The British Architect, 31 May 1895, vol. 43, p. 377 ("an exceedingly fine example of Hondecoeter, signed and dated 1677...realised 4150 guineas");
"Notes on Art and Architecture," in The Academy, 1 June 1895, no. 1204, p. 470;
J. Knowles (ed.), "The Picture Sales of 1895," in The Twentieth Century: A Monthly Review, vol. 38, July - December 1895, p. 472.
"Notes on Art and Architecture," in The Academy, 1 June 1895, no. 1204, p. 470;
J. Knowles (ed.), "The Picture Sales of 1895," in The Twentieth Century: A Monthly Review, vol. 38, July - December 1895, p. 472.
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