Attributed to
Isaac La Grese
(active mid 1500s)
Associated with
Pierre Vase
(French, ca.1520–after 1590)
Golden Plover (Pluvialis squatarola), Adult, Non-breeding
ca. 1554-1564
Watercolor, gouache, white lead pigment, and black ink over traces of black chalk on ivory paper, laid on paper, formerly laid on an album page
Overall (irregular): 13 3/4 × 11 in. (34.9 × 27.9 cm)
Gift of Nathaniel H. Bishop
1889.10.1.37
DescriptionAvian studyMarkingsInside cover of Album 1 contains a printed catalogue description reading: "Drawings of European Birds, a Collection of upwards of 200 Drawings, most beautifully executed colours, of European Birds, taken from Nature, and most faithfully copied with a view to be published; but from the death of the artists M. la Grese, and M. Petit, they never were engraved. Most of them are accompanied with their names, in 4 large vols. oblong folios, formerly in the Duke of Devonshire's Collection"
InscribedInscribed along right edge vertically: Guillemot [not a guillemot]
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Collections
- Rare Watercolors of European Birds, 1540-1590
Unidentified artist
ca. 1554-1564
1889.10.1.34
