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Hunter’s Bag on a Terrace
Also titled Jachtbuit bij een bordes
Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Utrecht, 1636–1695)
c. 1678
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 211 cm x width 137 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Together, the two paintings hanging side by side here tell a story. In this one, a magnificent peacock wants to be king of the birds. Meanwhile, the magpie taking centre stage in the other painting voices its objection. The point is that being a worthy ruler is not solely about attractive appearances: he must be able to defend his people. Here, the right king is already present, symbolized by an orange: William III of Orange.
