Melchior d'Hondecoeter
The Crow Exposed

ArtistDutch, 1636–1695
CultureDutch
Titles
  • The Crow Exposed
Datec. 1680?
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsunframed: 67 × 83 1/4 in. (170.2 × 211.5 cm)
framed: 76 1/2 × 92 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.

Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.1978.18
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
214 Blaffer Galleries
On view

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Object Type
Provenance[Victor Spark Gallery, New York]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1978.
Exhibition History"Genre Scenes, Portraits and Still-life: Dutch and Flemish Paintings of the 16th and 17th Centuries," El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, September 16, 2012–January 6, 2013.


Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed lower right: M.D. Hondecoeter

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