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The Menagerie
Also titled De menagerie
Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Utrecht, 1636–1695)
c. 1690
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 135 cm x width 116.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Presented here are two squirrel monkeys from Central America, two white sulphur-crested cockatoos from Australia, a grey parrot from Africa and a purple-naped lory – on a chain at the lower left – from Indonesia. Hondecoeter combined these creatures and several other splendid birds in this painting, which was destined for Het Loo, the palace of William III. It hung above the door of the king’s private apartment.
