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Johann Heinrich August Friedrich, after Melchior d’Hondecoeter

A farmyard scene with bantams, a pheasant, a garden eagle and other fowl

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Auction Closed

May 26, 03:18 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Johann Heinrich August Friedrich, after Melchior d’Hondecoeter

Dresden 1789 - 1843

A farmyard scene with bantams, a pheasant, a garden eagle and other fowl

oil on canvas

unframed: 109.6 by 140.6 cm.; 43⅛ by 55⅜ in.

framed: 135.7 by 166.4 cm; 53⅜ by 65½ in.

Please note that the estimate for Lot 90 should be £6000-8000 and not £8,000 – 12,000 as stated in the printed catalogue.

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Replica Shoes 's, 29 October 1998, lot 34;
Where acquired by the present owner.

From 1806 up until his death, Johann Heinrich August Friedrich exhibited regularly at the Dresden Academy, specialising predominately in imitating the style of Melchior d'Hondecoeter. The present work is a direct copy of a composition by Hondecoeter in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (inv. 1307).¹

¹H. Marx and E. Hipp, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden, vol. II, Cologne 2005, p. 308, no. 947, reproduced.