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Description: | Hondecoeter was nicknamed by some 'the Raphael of bird-painting'. He was certainly the most important artist of this genre in the late seventeenth century, painting both native and exotic birds, sometimes as allegories or dead still lifes. He painted his subjects with a refined analytical precision and with an elegance enhanced by narrative and setting. In this work a peacock and cockerel crow competitively against an Italianate garden background while a hen watches her young. Some of these birds appear as repeated motifs in other paintings by Hondecoeter. This canvas was probably hung over a fireplace; hence the low perspective. | Subjects: | cockerel animal (birds: peacock finches chicks) hens | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Hondecoeter, Melchior de (Dutch animal painter, 1636-1695) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8844... | Go to resource |
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