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Melchior de Hondecoeter Enten in bewaldeter Landschaft Öl auf Leinwand (doubliert). 83 x 66 cm. Signiert unten rechts: M. D. Hondecoeter. Provenienz Lord Newborough, Glynllifon, Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire, Wales. - Auktion seiner Sammlung, Christie’s, London, 18.3.1938, Lot 25. - Dort erworben von Vicars Brothers, London - Auktion Sotheby’s, London, 9.12.1987, Lot 94. - Douwes Fine Art, Amsterdam, 1989 (ausgestellt auf der TEFAF, Maastricht, März 1989, S. 57). Literatur The Connoisseur, September 1938, S. 445 ff. mit Abb. Melchior de Hondecoeter wird 1636 in Utrecht in eine Familie von Malern flämischer Herkunft geboren, unter denen sein Großvater der Landschaftsmaler Gillis de Hondecoeter war. Melchior beginnt seine malerische Ausbildung bei seinem Vater Gijsbert de Hondecoeter und setzt diese nach dessen Tod 1653 bei seinem Onkel Jan Baptist Weenix fort. Zwischen 1659 und 1663 ist Melchior in Den Haag dokumentiert, bis er 1663 nach Amsterdam zieht und dort Susana Tradel heiratet. In diesen Jahren beginnt er mit dem Malen von Vögeln und Stillleben mit Jagdmotiven sowie totem Wild. Sein reifer Stil lässt sich mit dem Werk des Tier- und Stilllebenmalers Frans Snyders in Verbindung bringen, dessen Gemälde er bewundert und sammelt. Häufig platziert Hondecoeter innerhalb seiner Kompositionen Vögel und andere Tiere am Bildrand, so dass diese vom Rand der Leinwand abgeschnitten sind, wie auch bei der uns vorliegenden Darstellung. Hondecoeter war ein produktiver Künstler und zu Lebzeiten, wie auch heute, hoch angesehen. Seine Werke wurden wegen ihres technischen Könnens und ihrer dekorativen Qualitäten geschätzt und von seinen Zeitgenossen gerne imitiert. Bereits ein Gemälde mit der Darstellung von Wildgeflügel, wie das uns vorliegende Werk, vermag es, auf die Gesellschaftsstruktur der Niederlande in der Frühen Neuzeit hinzuweisen. Aufgrund der Jagdprivilegien des Adels durfte Wildgeflügel zumeist nur von den adligen Pächtern der Wälder oder durch von ihnen ermächtigte Personen gejagt werden. So verwundert es nicht, dass der Jagd und der Beute ein besonderes Prestige zukam, da große Teile der Bevölkerung davon ausgeschlossen waren. Wir danken Dr. Fred G. Meijer für die Bestätigung der Authentizität anhand hochauflösender Fotografien. Melchior de Hondecoeter Ducks in a Wooded Landscape Oil on canvas (relined). 83 x 66 cm. Signed lower right: M. D. Hondecoeter. Provenance Lord Newborough, Glynllifon, Llandwrog, Wales; His sale, Christie’s, London, 18 March 1938, lot 25; There acquired by Vicars Brothers, London; Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 9 December 1987, lot 94; With Douwes Fine Art, Amsterdam, 1989 (exhibited at TEFAF, Maastricht, March 1989, p. 57). Literature The Connoisseur, September 1938, p. 445 Melchior de Hondecoeter was born in Utrecht in 1636 into a family of painters of Flemish origin, one of whom, his grandfather, was the landscape painter Gillis de Hondecoeter. Melchior began his painterly training with his father Gijsbert de Hondecoeter and after his death in 1653, continued with his uncle Jan Baptist Weenix. Between 1659 and 1663 Melchior is documented in The Hague until he moved to Amsterdam in 1663 where he married Susana Tradel. It was during these years that he began painting birds and still lifes with hunting scenes and dead game. His mature style can be associated with the work of the animal and still life painter Frans Snyders whose paintings he admired and collected. Hondecoeter often placed birds and other animals around the edge of the picture so they were cropped from the edge of the canvas, as in the present depiction. Hondecoeter was a productive artist and highly regarded during his lifetime, as today. His works were valued for their technical skill and decorative qualities and were readily imitated by his contemporaries. Even a painting depicting wild fowl, as in the present work, is able to indicate the social structure of the Netherlands in the early modern period. Due to the hunting privileges of the nobility, wild fowl was mostly permitted to be hunted only by the noble tenants of the forests or by persons authorised by them. It is therefore not surprising that the hunt and its spoils accorded a special prestige since large parts of the population were excluded. We would like to thank Dr Fred G. Meijer for his confirmation of the authenticity from high resolution photographs.
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