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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Spruyt's speciality was paintings of birds, some of which have been confused with the work of Melchior de Hondecoeter. Works by Spruyt are relatively rare. This painting employs a favourite compositional device of the artist where one bird flies towards others already on the ground. In the middle foreground, a white hen flaps her wings and fluffs her plumage in a dramatic defense of her five chicks as a pigeon swoops in from the right to join its mate on the ground. On the left, a yellow cockerel with a bright red comb nestles on top of a bale of straw. Behind and to the right is a hilly landscape with trees. The darkening sky suggests that a rain storm is on its way. Although most of Spruyt's paintings feature ducks another example with hens and pigeons, signed and dated 1660, is in the Museum Bredius, The Hague. | Subjects: | birds (poultry pigeons) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Spruyt, Johannes (Dutch painter, 1627 or 1628-1671) Æ Previously attributed to Spruyt, Jacob Philips (Flemish portraitist and genre painter, active 1764-1772) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8527... | Go to resource |
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