Animals and Plants of the Forest Artist: Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Dutch, 1636–1695)

ca. 1670–80

European Art

On view, 4th floor, Special Exhibitions
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

81.3 × 64.8 cm (32 × 25 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of Dr. Herbert and Monika Schaefer

Accession Number

2020.37.47

Culture

Dutch

Period

17th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Düsseldorfer Auktionshaus, Düsseldorf, November 2004 (as Anonymous). Rafael Valls Limited, London, by March 2005 (inv. no. 16) (as Melchior d’Hondecoeter) [see note 1]; Dr. Herbert Schaefer (1910–2011) and Mrs. Monika Schaefer (died 2019), Malaga, Spain, by 2005; on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2005–2019; bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2019

Note 1: In March 2005, the painting was exhibited at The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Maastricht, by Rafael Valls, Ltd. The attribution to Melchior d’Hondecoeter was suggested shortly thereafter by Frederick Meijer of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague (the Netherlands Institute for Art History) (RKD image no. 0000130615; RKD corr. 05-460)
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Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

animal art

Subject

birds (animals) butterflies

Signed

Signed, indistinctly, mid-left: Hondecoeter

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