# Peacocks

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## Artwork

- Artist: [HONDECOETER, Melchior d&#39;](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hondecoeter-melchior-d-r346a4d61171411>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 190 x 135 cm

## Commentary

Like earlier still-life painters, Hondecoeter turned curiosities of nature into curiosities of art, and into elements of interior decoration. The peafowl, the crane, the monkey, the squirrel, and the swallow are repeated in other compositions by Hondecoeter. In his work as a whole one finds peacocks, peahens, turkeys,ducks and hens studied in various poses and from different angles.

## Related artworks

- [Birds and a Spaniel in a Garden](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hondecoeter-melchior-d-r346a4d61171411/birds-and-a-spaniel-in-a-garden-r2b6b271de15dc2>)
- [Birds in a Park](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hondecoeter-melchior-d-r346a4d61171411/birds-in-a-park-r01a012be0e9089>)
- [Birds in a Park](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hondecoeter-melchior-d-r346a4d61171411/birds-in-a-park-r379d03e1c49ac8>)
- [Birds in a Park](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hondecoeter-melchior-d-r346a4d61171411/birds-in-a-park-r37f673559e4c9b>)
- [Dead Birds and Hunting Equipment in a Niche](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hondecoeter-melchior-d-r346a4d61171411/dead-birds-and-hunting-equipment-in-a-niche-r2f22ee325af2d3>)
- [Game Piece](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hondecoeter-melchior-d-r346a4d61171411/game-piece-rfb50e872823ea9>)
- [Peacocks and Ducks](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hondecoeter-melchior-d-r346a4d61171411/peacocks-and-ducks-r4808a79e4b09ab>)
- [Still-Life with Dead Kingfisher](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hondecoeter-melchior-d-r346a4d61171411/still-life-with-dead-kingfisher-r0fdd0189c0f995>)
- [The Floating Feather](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hondecoeter-melchior-d-r346a4d61171411/the-floating-feather-ra97813a09d9989>)
- [The Menagerie](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hondecoeter-melchior-d-r346a4d61171411/the-menagerie-r093e90379fe933>)
- [The Pair of Peacocks](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hondecoeter-melchior-d-r346a4d61171411/the-pair-of-peacocks-rf63754cd330fd5>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)