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Original works by Melchior d'Hondecoeter available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Melchior d'Hondecoeter at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Birds in a Park, 1686
Birds in a Park, 1686
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague NEW!
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History 
Peacocks, 1683
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
A Cock, Hens and Chicks, ca.1668-70
Birds, Butterflies and a Frog among Plants and Fungi, 1668
Melchior d'Hondecoeter at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
A Pelican and Other Birds Near a Pool (The Floating Feather), ca.1680
A hen with peacocks and a turkey
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
11 works by Melchior d'Hondecoeter online
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch) NEW!
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Barnyard Fowl
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, UK
Poultry
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Landscape with Fowl
Crocker Art Museum, California
Birds
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Museum Bredius, Netherlands
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France NEW!
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Poultry Yard
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
3 paintings online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
3 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City NEW!
Birds in a Landscape
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Pictures from Image Archives:
Melchior d'Hondecoeter in the Art Renewal Center
Melchior d'Hondecoeter at CGFA
Melchior d'Hondecoeter in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Melchior d'Hondecoeter 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Artnet Magazine
The Feathered Choir, ca.1680
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
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