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Melchior d'Hondecoeter: The Floating Feather  wikidata:Q1219357 reasonator:Q1219357
Artist
Melchior d'Hondecoeter  (1636–1695)  wikidata:Q304411
 
Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Alternative names
de Hondecoeter, d'Hondecoutre, de Hondecoutre,
d'Hondekoeter, de Hondekoeter, d'Hondekoote, d'Hondekooten
Description Dutch painter, drawer, printmaker and ornamental painter
Date of birth/death 1636 Edit this at Wikidata 3 April 1695 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Utrecht Amsterdam
Work period 1654–1695
Work location
Utrecht, The Hague (1658–1663), Amsterdam (1663–1695)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q304411
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
A Pelican and other Birds near a Pool, Known as ‘The Floating Feather’ Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lfr,"Un pélican et autres volatiles près d'un bassin ou « La Plume à la dérive »"
label QS:Lnl,"Een pelikaan en ander gevogelte bij een waterbassin, bekend als ‘Het drijvende veertje’"
label QS:Len,"A Pelican and Other Birds Near a Pool, known as ‘The Floating Feather’"
label QS:Lde,"Ein Pelikan und andere Vögel in der Nähe eines Teiches, bekannt als die ‘Schwimmende Feder’"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre still life Edit this at Wikidata
Description
pelican Edit this at Wikidata
Date Circa 1680
date QS:P571,+1680-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 159 cm (62.5 in); width: 144 cm (56.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,159U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,144U174728
institution QS:P195,Q190804
Accession number
SK-A-175
Object history circa 1680
date QS:P,+1680-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
: commissioned by William III, Prince of Orange (1650-1702) for Soestdijk hunting lodge, Soestdijk

1795: nationalized

1799: acquired by Nationale Kostgalerij, Huis ten Bosch, The Hague

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: transferred to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
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Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Een pelikaan en ander gevogelte bij een waterbassin, bekend als ‘Het drijvend veertje’.

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 20016732, as Gijsbert Gillisz. de Hondecoeter, Ein Pelikan und andere Vögel in der Nähe eines Teiches, bekannt als die ‘Schwimmende Feder’

Web Gallery of Art, as Melchior d'Hondecoeter, The Floating Feather.
Source/Photographer www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info : Pic
Other versions
File:Melchior de Hondecoeter Birds in a Park 1680.jpg
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File:Melchior d'Hondecoeter - The Floating Feather - WGA11641.jpg
Version from www.wga.hu

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