Gathering of Birds and Animals
unknown
Basic information
- ID
- Ж-273
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- Gathering of Birds and Animals
- Date of creation
- 17th c.
- Country
- Holland
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- copper oil
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 19.5 x 24.7
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- animal painting
- Plot
- Animal Bird
- Provenance
- Collection of Lviv City Gallery
Information about author
Object description
The artwork, credited to an unknown 17th-century Dutch artist, depicts an animalistic scene. Birds (a goose, a parrot, a duck, a heron, and a crane) are presented on the left, and animals (a goat, a ferret, a fox, and a cheetah) are on the right. They are getting into a fight, as evidenced by their bared teeth and outstretched wings. Such animalistic images were frequent in Dutch paintings of the time and had a hidden allegorical meaning. Popular moralistic fables and emblematic literature inspired the content of the works.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
