A Pelican and other Birds near a Pool, Known as ‘The Floating Feather’

• A Pelican and other Birds near a Pool, Known as ‘The Floating Feather’
• A Pelican and other Birds near a Pool, known as 'The Floating Feather'

SK-A-175

signature: ‘M.D. Hondecoeter’

It must have been a great honour for Hondecoeter to receive commissions from the country’s ruler. He made this regal bird scene for Het Loo, the palace of William and Mary. It features a pelican in the foreground, a cassowary behind it at the left, a flamingo and a black crowned crane. Water birds congregate in and around a basin, and a feather floats on the water’s surface.

P.J.J. van Thiel, in: Oud Holland 95 (1981), p. 208, nr. 172

painter: Melchior d' Hondecoeter

c. 1680

olieverf op doek

height 159 cm x width 144 cm

nationalization 1795 1799

Public domain

• P.J.J. van Thiel, in: Oud Holland 95 (1981), p. 208, nr. 172
• J. Stumpel, in: Kunstschrift 4 (1995), p. 39-41
• E. Sterbetz, Documents dans les arts plastiques pour l'étude de la migration des bernaches a cou roux, in: Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, Budapest, nr. 50 (1978), p. 76

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