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A Rooster and Turkey Fighting
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About this work
One of the most fashionable artists of his time, Hondecoeter specialized in paintings of domestic and exotic birds, and other animals. Here the composition is enlivened by the swirl and excitement of the fighting rooster and turkey, set in a garden with classical architecture. A large picture like this must have been placed high over a fireplace in a rich Amsterdam house.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineA Rooster and Turkey Fighting, c. 1680. Melchior de Hondecoeter (Dutch, 1636–1695). Oil on canvas; framed: 164.5 x 193 x 10 cm (64 3/4 x 76 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 137.2 x 166.4 cm (54 x 65 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1986.59
