A Hen with Peacocks and a Turkey
Also titled Een hen met pauwen en een kalkoen
Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Utrecht, 1636–1695)
c. 1680
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 11.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- 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 taking care for her chicks, surrounded by large and intimidating birds.
