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Two Peacocks Threatening a Hen with Chicks, Known as ‘The Threatened Hen’
Also titled Een hen met kuikens bedreigd door twee pauwen, bekend als ‘De bedreigde hen’
Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Utrecht, 1636–1695)
1681
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 4 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
Hondecoeter enlivened his bird paintings with little vignettes. Here the focus is on the hen protecting her chicks from the large and intimidating peacocks.
