Melchior d' Hondecoeter, 1680 - Birds on a Balustrade - fine art print

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Melchior d’Hondecoeter is the best-known bird painter of the 17th century. He brought the genre to great heights. He portrayed birds from all over the world with a great sensitivity for detail, colour, and animation: chicken, hoopoe or parrot, he observed them all equally closely. This oil sketch of chicks affords unique insight into D’Hondecoeter’s working practice. He used such studies as the basis for his monumental park landscapes (on view in Gallery 2.22), which feature diverse species of birds. Depicted in this sketch are seven chicks in various poses. They were frequently reused in a ‘copy & paste’ fashion in his paintings, as for instance in his Birds on a Balustrade.

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In 1680 Melchior d' Hondecoeter painted this artwork. This work of art is part of the collection of Rijksmuseum, which is the largest museum for Dutch art and history from the Middle Ages to the present day. This work of art, which belongs to the public domain is supplied with courtesy of Rijksmuseum.Moreover, the work of art has the following creditline: . What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a ratio of 3 : 1, which implies that the length is three times longer than the width. The painter Melchior d' Hondecoeter was a European artist from the Netherlands, whose art style can mainly be classified as Baroque. The European artist was born in the year 1636 and deceased at the age of 59 in the year 1695.

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