---
title: "Royal Rooster (1972), Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Royal Rooster (1972), Chico da Silva. Gouache on canvas, 65 x 45 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
canonical: https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/royal-rooster-1972-002/
lang: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
translations:
  en: https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/royal-rooster-1972-002/
  es: https://chicodasilva.org/es/pinturas/gallo-real-1972-002/
  fr: https://chicodasilva.org/fr/peintures/coq-royal-1972-002/
  pt: https://chicodasilva.org/pt/pinturas/galo-real-1972-002/
  ar: https://chicodasilva.org/ar/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83-%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A-1972-002/
  zh-Hans: https://chicodasilva.cn/%E4%BD%9C%E5%93%81/%E7%9A%87%E5%AE%B6%E5%85%AC%E9%B8%A1-1972-002/
---

# Royal Rooster

![A single ornate rooster with striped crest and long sweeping tail on a cream ground. Royal Rooster, Chico da Silva, 1972, gouache on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-002/chico-da-silva-royal-rooster-1972-gouache-on-canvas-65x45cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-002-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-002/chico-da-silva-royal-rooster-1972-gouache-on-canvas-65x45cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-002-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A single ornate rooster stands centered on a pale cream ground, its head turned with open beak and a tall crest of red and blue striped plumes. The rounded body is layered with red, orange and yellow striped feathers, a pale blue-edged wing, and a long tail of fine red and blue lines sweeping to the right. It perches on slender green legs with curled black claws above spiky green palm fronds. In this naive decorative style the plumage is rendered in dense parallel linework; a date and a stylized signature appear at the lower center. Faint graphite (pencil) underdrawing is visible in places.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 1972
- **Technique:** Gouache on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 65 x 45 cm
- **Motif:** [Roosters](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/roosters/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** FOZILVA, lower center (reversed D and S)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-002](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-002)
- **Article:** [Legacy and Rediscovery](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/legacy-and-rediscovery/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «FOZILVA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-signature-1972-jcc-002-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “FOZILVA”, at the center of the lower edge. The D and the S are reversed, so it reads as the artist's usual signature, “F. D. Silva”. Beside it sits the painter's thumbprint.*

## How to credit

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

Chico da Silva, “Royal Rooster” (1972). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-002

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-002/manifest.json)