Johann Heinrich August Friedrich, after Melchior d’Hondecoeter

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Property from an Irish Private Collection

Johann Heinrich August Friedrich, after Melchior d’Hondecoeter

A farmyard scene with bantams, a pheasant, a garden eagle and other fowl

oil on canvas

unframed: 109.6 by 140.6 cm.; 43 1/8 by 55 3/8 in.

framed: 135.7 by 166.4 cm; 53 3/8 by 65 1/2 in.

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Sotheby's, 29 October 1998, lot 34;
Where acquired by the present owner.

From 1806 up until his death, Johann Heinrich August Friedrich exhibited regularly at the Dresden Academy, specialising predominately in imitating the style of Melchior d'Hondecoeter. The present work is a direct copy of a composition by Hondecoeter in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (inv. 1307).¹

¹H. Marx and E. Hipp, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden, vol. II, Cologne 2005, p. 308, no. 947, reproduced.