About the Artwork
Poultry Yard
ca. 1668
Melchior de Hondecoeter
1636-1695
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 44 1/8 × 15 1/4 inches (112.1 × 38.7 cm) Framed: 53 1/4 × 59 5/8 × 3 inches (135.3 × 151.4 × 7.6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
45.16
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, to left of turkey's head: M. de Hondecoeter
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Provenance
T.T. Friedlander Esq. (England)
1944-1945, (Schaeffer Galleries Inc., New York, New York, USA)
1945-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Richardson, E.P. "The Barnyard by Melchior de Hondecoeter." Bulletin of the DIA 24, no. 5 (1945): p. 63 (ill.).
Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts. Detroit, 1954, p. 23.
Antiques 72, no. 5 (November 1957) p. 451.
Dutch Art of the 1600s. Exh. cat., Paine Art Center and Arboretum. Oshkosh, 1968, no. 17 (ill.).
Gazette des Beaux Arts 83, suppl. (February 1974): p. 123, no. 397.
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 114-115.
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Melchior de Hondecoeter, Poultry Yard, ca. 1668, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 45.16.
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