Jakob Bogdány
Domestic fowl including mallard ducks, a partridge and a willet, in a park landscape, with a dog and a hare, a lake and a cottage in the distance
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December 7, 10:48 AM GMT
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40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Jakob Bogdány
Eperjes circa 1660–1724 London
Domestic fowl including mallard ducks, a partridge and a willet, in a park landscape, with a dog and a hare, a lake and a cottage in the distance
signed lower left: J. Bogdani
oil on canvas
unframed: 124.8 x 201.8 cm.; 49⅛ x 79½ in.
framed: 146.1 x 225 cm.; 57½ x 88⅝ in.
With Giancarlo Sestieri, Rome, by 1950;
Private collection, Verona;
From whom acquired.
This monumental canvas depicting domestic fowl in a grandiose garden setting is one of Jakob Bogdány's largest and most impressive works. Following his time in Amsterdam between 1684 and 1686 where he would have seen the works of Melchior d’Hondecoeter, Bogdány settled in London where his vivid still life and bird paintings were coveted by the aristocracy. Queen Mary and Queen Anne were among his clientele, and it was through Queen Anne that Bogdány met Admiral George Churchill (1654–1710), the younger brother of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Churchill had an aviary full of unusual birds at Windsor, which perhaps inspired Bogdány's fascination with accurately depicting birds as demonstrated in this painting.