Artist/Maker
Unidentified artist
(French, active ca. 1520–1570)
Associated with
Pierre Vase
(French, ca.1520–after 1590)
Long-eared Owl (Asio otus)
ca. 1554-1564
Watercolor, gouache, and black ink, with touches of white lead pigment over black chalk on ivory paper, formerly laid on an album page
Overall (irregular): 14 3/8 × 11 1/8 in. (36.5 × 28.3 cm)
Gift of Nathaniel H. Bishop
1889.10.3.36
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: Otus. [cut] 43.
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Collections
- Rare Watercolors of European Birds, 1540-1590
Unidentified artist
ca. 1554-1564
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Unidentified artist
ca. 1554-1564
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Unidentified artist
ca. 1554-1564
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