Concert of Birds
1660/1670
Painter

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on copper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 13 x 18 cm (5 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1983.19.4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(John Mitchell, London and New York), by 1956. (Leonard Koetser Ltd., London); sold June 1960 to Mrs. John Dimick, Chevy Chase, Maryland;[1] John Dimick, Chevy Chase; gift 1983 to NGA.
[1] An undated photograph in the Witt Library (fiche 12,090) identifies the painting as with John Mitchell Galleries. Peter Mitchell, of John Mitchell and Son, in response to a letter from Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., sent from their records a photograph of the painting dated May 1956 (see letter of 6 January 1983, in NGA curatorial files). A Leonard Koetser Ltd. label taken from the back of the painting references the Antique Dealers' Fair in June 1960, and the Koetser invoice for the sale to Mrs. Dimick is dated 20 June 1960 (label and copy of invoice in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1960
Antique Dealers Fair, London, June 1960.
1995
Dutch Cabinet Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995-1996, no cat.
1998
A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 31.
Bibliography
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 214, repro.
1988
Pinkston, Cynthia N. "The Cover." Journal of the American Medical Assocoiation 259 (13 May 1988): 2639, repro.
2005
Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2005: 126-128, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20177498