Manner of Melchior d'Hondecoeter (19th Century)

Manner of Melchior d'Hondecoeter (19th Century)

A peacock, cockerel, hen, pheasant, mallards and other birds in a parkland

Oil on canvas

79.8 x 100.2cm; 31½ x 39¼in

Provenance:

Collection of Colonel Johann Alexander Artemis Sparre of Sweden (1800-1885), (according to label);

Collection of Berndt Hay, Swedish industrialist, 1919;

Private collection, Germany

Colonel Sparre was the father of Josephine Sparre (1829-1892) who was mistress of King Charles XV of Sweden and also the lady in waiting to the Queen.