id:			153368
accession number:	1986.59
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.59
updated:		2025-04-16 18:17:24.268000

A Rooster and Turkey Fighting, c. 1680. Melchior de Hondecoeter (Dutch, 1636–1695). Oil on canvas; framed: 164.5 x 193 x 10 cm (64 3/4 x 76 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 137.2 x 166.4 cm (54 x 65 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1986.59

title:				A Rooster and Turkey Fighting
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creation date:			c. 1680
creation date earliest:		1675
creation date latest:		1685
current location:		001A ArtLens Exhibition
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Netherlands
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Netherlandish-Dutch
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Melchior de Hondecoeter (Dutch, 1636–1695)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 164.5 x 193 x 10 cm (64 3/4 x 76 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 137.2 x 166.4 cm (54 x 65 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	signed upper center:  M C Hondecoeter
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review for 1986
	opening date:   1987-02-04T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review for 1986</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Year in Review for 1986, The Cleveland Museum of Art, (Bulletin, Feb. 1987, p. 62, cat. no. 38, color illus.)', 'opening_date': '1987-02-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Charles Fairfax Murray, London (Paris sale 1914).
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	Frances Roche (New York sale 1948).
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	(Harari & Johns, London, and Newhouse Gallery, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1986.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1986.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 2 (February 1987): 38–79.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 49; Mentioned: p. 62, no. 38
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159974

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