Attributed to
Isaac La Grese
(active mid 1500s)
Associated with
Pierre Vase
(French, ca.1520–after 1590)
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
ca. 1554-1564
Gouache, watercolor, black ink, and white lead pigment over black chalk on ivory paper, formerly laid on an album page
Overall (irregular): 11 1/4 × 7 11/16 in. (28.6 × 19.5 cm)
Gift of Nathaniel H. Bishop
1889.10.1.41
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 upper edge: "Culblac [Culblanc] Cinclus [crossed out] 38 / 18"; at lower right: "9. / S. / 5.[?]"
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Collections
- Rare Watercolors of European Birds, 1540-1590
Isaac La Grese
ca. 1554-1564
1889.10.1.18
Isaac La Grese
ca. 1554-1564
1889.10.1.19
