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Melchior d'Hondecoeter · c. 1678
Melchior d'Hondecoeter: 1636–1695
Other names (136)
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Biography
Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɛlxijɔr də ˈɦɔndəˌkutər]; c. 1636 – 3 April 1695), Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. Hondecoeter's paintings featured geese (brent goose, Egyptian goose and red-breasted goose), fieldfares, partridges, pigeons, ducks, northern cardinal, magpies and peacocks, but also African grey crowned cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Indonesian yellow-crested cockatoos, an Indonesian purple-naped lory and grey-headed lovebirds from Madagascar.
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Later influence
- Tobias Stranovereditorial inference
Evidence
Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
- Marmaduke Cradockeditorial inference
Evidence
Wikidata assertion retained for review; its references, if supplied, have not been independently verified.
Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Melchior d'Hondecoeter. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Rijksmuseum13 recorded works
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna5 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre2 recorded works
- Hermitage Museum1 recorded work
- MuMa - Musée d’art moderne André Malraux1 recorded work
- musée Condé — Chantilly1 recorded work
- musée d'art et d'histoire — Saint-Brieuc1 recorded work
- musée de la Chartreuse — Douai1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris1 recorded work
- musée municipal — Cambrai1 recorded work
- Museo Nacional del Prado1 recorded work
- Nationalmuseum1 recorded work
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)1 recorded work
- The Cleveland Museum of Art1 recorded work
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art1 recorded work
Sources 10
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- SMK SARA creator nationality review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- SMK SARA creator nationality review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links
