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- Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636 - 1695)
- Peacocks and Ducks
- Netherlands
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- Date: c. 1680
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 207 x 173.5 cm
- Object size: made up to, 209.5 x 176 cm
- Overall size: 242 x 214 x 22.5 cm
- Inv: P64
- Location: Great Gallery
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- The most impressive of Hondecoeter’s pictures in the Wallace Collection, the composition represents a peacock and peahen standing on a balustrade above a family of muscovy ducks and ducklings, with a pair of Egyptian geese in the right foreground and a dove and swallow in the air. In much the same manner as contemporary still-life painting, the subject allows the painter to demonstrate his feeling for colour and composition, as well as his ability to evoke different material textures in paint, from the magnificent plumed tail of the peacock to the soft down of the ducklings in the foreground. It shows Hondecoeter’s debt to the compositional design and style of his cousin Jan Weenix, whose painting of similar dimensions hangs on the same wall.