American Visiona✅ry: The Collection of Mrs. John L. Marion
Melchior de Hondecoeter
Exotic fowl, including a peacock and peahen, fl𓃲amingo, African crane, pheasant, and lapwing, shoveller, pelican and tufted duck
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May 20, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
Lot Details
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American Visionary: The Collection 🎃Mrs. John L🙈. Marion
Melchior de Hondecoeter
Utrecht 1636 - 1695 Amsterdam
Exotic fowl, including a peacock and peahen, flamingo, African crane, pheasant, and lapwing, shoveller, pelican and tufted duck
signed upper center, on the branch: M.D. Hondecoeter
double seal of the Liechꦐtenstein Princely collections on recto, lo𒀰wer left and verso, upper right and lower left
oil on canvas
canvas: 52 by 66 ½ in.; 132꧟.1 by 169 cm.
framed: 59 by 73 ¾ in.; 149.9 by 187.3 cm.
Liechtenstein Princely Collections, probably in the Stadtpalais and Gartenpaཧlais der Rossau, Vienna, since before 1712, and sold privately in the 1950s;
With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna;
From whom acquired by a private collector;
B♛y✃ whom anonymously offered ("Property of a Gentleman"), London, Sotheby's, 10 July 2002, lot 45 (where unsold);
Acquired afte💞r the sale by Adam Williams ꧑Fine Art, New York;
By whom sold to Hal🤡l🌺 & Knight, New York, 2003;
From whom acquired in July 2003.
Possibly, Description des Tableaux et des Pièces de Sculpture que renferme La Gallerie de Son altesse François Joseph, Chef et Prince Regnant de la Maison Liechtenstein, etc., Vienna 1780, p. 33, no. 67;
J. Falke, Katalog der Fürtslich Liechtenstein Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Vienna 1873, p. 136, no. 1174;
Katalog der Sammlung des Fürsten Liechtenstein in Wien, Vienna 1885, p. 105, no. 783;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexicon, Vienna and Leipzig 1906, vol. I, p. 704;
A. Kronfeld, Führer durch die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche gemäldegalerie in Wien, Vienna 1931, p. 157, no. 783, with handwritten annotation "seit 1733 in Galerie."