Melchior de Hondecoeter

Exotic fowl, including a peacock and peahen, flamingo, African crane, pheasant, and lapwing, shoveller, pelican and tufted duck

Auction Closed

May 20, 03:42 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

American Visionary: The Collection Mrs. John L. Marion

Melchior de Hondecoeter

Utrecht 1636 - 1695 Amsterdam

Exotic fowl, including a peacock and peahen, flamingo, African crane, pheasant, and lapwing, shoveller, pelican and tufted duck

signed upper center, on the branch: M.D. Hondecoeter

double seal of the Liechtenstein Princely collections on recto, lower left and verso, upper right and lower left

oil on canvas

canvas: 52 by 66 ½ in.; 132.1 by 169 cm.

framed: 59 by 73 ¾ in.; 149.9 by 187.3 cm.

Liechtenstein Princely Collections, probably in the Stadtpalais and Gartenpalais der Rossau, Vienna, since before 1712, and sold privately in the 1950s;

With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna;

From whom acquired by a private collector;

By whom anonymously offered ("Property of a Gentleman"), London, Sotheby's, 10 July 2002, lot 45 (where unsold);

Acquired after the sale by Adam Williams Fine Art, New York;

By whom sold to Hall & Knight, New York, 2003;

From whom acquired in July 2003.

Possibly, V. Fanti, Descrizzione Completa di tutto ció che rotravasi nella Galleria di Pittura e Scultura di Sua Altezza Giuseppe Wenceslao del S.R.I. Principe Regnante della Casa di Liechtenstein, Vienna 1767, p. 31, no. 82;
Possibly, Description des Tableaux et des Pièces de Sculpture que renferme La Gallerie de Son altesse François Joseph, Chef et Prince Regnant de la Maison Liechtenstein, etc., Vienna 1780, p. 33, no. 67;
J. Falke, Katalog der Fürtslich Liechtenstein Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Vienna 1873, p. 136, no. 1174;
Katalog der Sammlung des Fürsten Liechtenstein in Wien, Vienna 1885, p. 105, no. 783;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexicon, Vienna and Leipzig 1906, vol. I, p. 704;
A. Kronfeld, Führer durch die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche gemäldegalerie in Wien, Vienna 1931, p. 157, no. 783, with handwritten annotation "seit 1733 in Galerie."