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title: "Rooster (1974), Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Rooster (1974), Chico da Silva. Acrylic on canvas, 39 x 27 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Rooster

![An ornate rooster with red scrolled plumage and a pale sweeping tail on black. Rooster, Chico da Silva, 1974, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-001/chico-da-silva-rooster-1974-acrylic-on-canvas-39x27cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-001-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-001/chico-da-silva-rooster-1974-acrylic-on-canvas-39x27cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-001-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A rooster stands in profile against a deep black ground, its neck and breast filled with intricate red scrolls accented by white and orange dots. The head bears an orange comb, red wattle and a green ringed eye. Long tail feathers in pale blue, white and rainbow stripes curve to the right, and orange legs end in splayed claws. Green palm fronds and grass tufts flank the bird in the naïve folk style. A white date and signature sit at lower centre.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 1974
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 39 x 27 cm
- **Motif:** [Roosters](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/roosters/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** FDZILVA, lower center (reversed S)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-001](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-001)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «FDZILVA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-signature-1974-jcc-001-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “FDZILVA”, at the center of the lower edge. The S is reversed, so it reads as the artist's usual signature, “F. D. Silva”.*

## How to credit

[Photographs free to reuse, with credit (CC BY 4.0)](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/#license)

Chico da Silva, “Rooster” (1974). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-001

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-001/manifest.json)