Melchior d'Hondecoeter Works Online
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Original works by Melchior d'Hondecoeter available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Melchior d'Hondecoeter at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
The Barnyard, ca.1668
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
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Melchior d'Hondecoeter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
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
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
Melchior d'Hondecoeter at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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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Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
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
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
The poultry yard
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
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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The Wallace Collection, London, UK
3 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
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)
Art Market:
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Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
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Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Melchior d'Hondecoeter in the Art Renewal Center
Melchior d'Hondecoeter at CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
The Floating Feather (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
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
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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)
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