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Seven Chicks
Also titled Zeven kuikens
Melchior d' Hondecoeter (Utrecht, 1636–1695)
c. 1665 - c. 1668
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 3.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the M. van Poecke Family and private collectors/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- 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
This oil sketch of chicks affords unique insight into the working method of Melchior d'Hondecoeter, the best-known bird painter of the 17th century. He used such studies as the basis for his monumental park landscapes, which feature diverse species of birds. Depicted in this sketch are seven chicks in various poses. They were frequently reused in a ‘copy & paste’ fashion in his paintings.
