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A Pelican and other Birds near a Pool, Known as ‘The Floating Feather’
Also titled Een pelikaan en ander gevogelte bij een waterbassin, bekend als ‘Het drijvend veertje’
Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Utrecht, 1636–1695)
c. 1680
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 159 cm x width 144 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
It must have been a great honour for Hondecoeter to receive commissions from the country’s ruler. He made this regal bird scene for Het Loo, the palace of William and Mary. It features a pelican in the foreground, a cassowary behind it at the left, a flamingo and a black crowned crane. Water birds congregate in and around a basin, and a feather floats on the water’s surface.
