Poultry farm

In the centre a colourful cock, approached angrily by a white hen from the left. In front of the hen three chicks. On the right, partly overlapped by the edge of the picture, a large turkey seen from the side. Behind it a view of a landscape.
Verso: A rip in the upper part of the canvas, on the stretcher in pencil at the upper left: "XR 12/2 A", next to it in pencil: "Max Josef Str. 2/l", at the upper right in blue: "31953" [Munich number], on the right label BStGS: "Inv. 13014", above it "PR" [Photo Roth], on the centre left a slip of paper with a jagged edge on it handwritten: "Ölgemälde 181", on the lower left a white sticker on it handwritten: "B II 22/R" [Standort Depot AP], on the central strut in pencil: "5", on the lower right and left traces of a sticker [presumably from a foam tape, as used to be common in the Alte Pinakothek].
without date, (copy after:) Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636 - 1695),
without date - without date, whereabouts unknown,
without date - without date, possibly Kunsthandlung A. S. Drey, Munich,
without date - 1945, NSDAP (Depot Party Headquarters), Munich,
03.06.1946 - 10.06.1949, Central Collecting Point, Munich number 31953, seizure by American Allies,
10.06.1949 - 22.02.1952, Minister President of Bavaria, Munich, transfer in trust by American Allies,
22.02.1952 - 27.04.1959, administration of cultural property in trust at the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, Munich, transfer in trust by Bavarian Minister President,
since 27.04.1959, Bavarian State Painting Collections (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen), Munich, transfer of ownership from the Munich Finance Ministry to the Free State of Bavaria
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