Lot 39: MELCHIOR D’HONDECOETER - (UTRECHT 1636-1695 AMSTERDAM)

MELCHIOR D’HONDECOETER
(UTRECHT 1636-1695 AMSTERDAM)
An eagle, swallow, snipe and fnch in fight
signed ‘M. d. hondecoeter.’ (lower left)
oil on canvas 43 3/4 x 56 3/4 in. (111.2 x 144.3 cm.)

PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale: Sotheby’s, Monaco, 17-18 June 1988, lot 996, as ‘Attributed
to Pieter Boel’.
with Rafael Valls, London, by 1990.
Robert and Angelique Noortman, Château De Groote Mot, Borgloon;
Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 17-18 December 2007, lot 41, where acquired by the
present owner.