Artist/Maker
Pierre Vase
(French, ca.1520–after 1590)
White Wagtail (Motacilla alba), Male Breeding
ca. 1554-1564
Watercolor, black ink, gouache, and white lead pigment over traces of black chalk on ivory paper, laid on paper, formerly laid on an album page
Overall (irregular): 11 15/16 × 8 1/4 in. (30.3 × 21 cm)
Gift of Nathaniel H. Bishop
1889.10.2.26
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 left edge vertically: 39 [in a box]
With text in French, Greek, and Latin [see unicode field] including the following credits:
At left: L'autheur / B. Textor.
At lower right: Le peintre / Pierre Vase, aliâs Cruche / L'escrivain / Thomas Huilier.
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Collections
- Rare Watercolors of European Birds, 1540-1590
Pierre Vase
ca. 1554-1564
1889.10.3.18
