Bird Park with View of Diemond Country Estate,

1671/80

Material / Technology / Carrier

Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

338,5 x 188,4 cm

Displayed

AP OG Saal IX

Department

Dutch Painting

Genre

Painting

Inventory number

1710

Acquisition

1799 aus der Galerie Zweibrücken

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München

Citation

Melchior d' Hondecoeter, Vogelpark mit Ansicht des Landsitzes Driemond, 1671/80, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/apG9n3n4Zn (Last updated on 11.10.2023)

Together with the three related paintings (see inv. no. 1715, 1717, and 1727), this monumental work was originally part of the wall decoration of a room in Driemond House, the feudal country seat of the confectioner and art collector Adolf Visscher of Amsterdam. A panoramic landscape opens up, extending over thirteen metres across the four canvases that is filled with numerous native and exotic birds, in the centre of which Visscher’s three children can be seen.