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Birds in the Branches of a Tree
From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Left: two sparrows (house sparrows) one above the other; center: a goldfinch over a chaffinch; right: a greenfinch seen from below over a nightingale. A painting sold at Sotheby's, London (5.7.1995, lot 108; RKD Image Database, Artwork No. 3377) shows a comparable view of branches with, however, more exotic birds upon them. It was signed "jvk." and formed part of a series of the Four Elements as an Allegory of Air.
Kunstmuseum Basel’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineVögel im Geäst eines Baumes. 1601–1700. Jan van Kessel d. Ä. (1626–1679). Kunstmuseum Basel, Vermächtnis Noetzlin-Werthemann. Public domain.
