Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Francis Barlow, 1622–1704, British
Title:
Domestic Cock, Hens, and Chicks
Date:
1655
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
33 x 39 inches (83.8 x 99.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black paint, upper right: "F Barlow Pinxit | 1655"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.28
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
nest (animal architecture) | basket | feathers | landscape | drinking | animal art | chicks | hens | rooster | food | mountains
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Andrea Bubenik, Perspectives on Wenceslaus Hollar, Harvery Miller Publishers, London, 2016, p. 208, fig. 9, NJ18.H73 A12 2016 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 18-19, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p.1, no.1, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Sir David Piper, The genius of British painting, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1975, p. 143, ND461 G45 (YCBA) +

Royal Academy of Arts, 17th century art in modern Europe, London, 1938, p. 22, no. 19, Fiche B167 (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catalogue : The valuable contents of Tythrop House, Thame, Oxfordshire : 21-22 August 1933, Sotheby's, August 21-22, 1933, p. 56, lot 402, Film B12 (YCBA)

Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th & 17th Century British Painters, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1988, p.18, ND464 W38 1988 (LC) (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:541