Artist/Maker
Pierre Vase
(French, ca.1520–after 1590)
Related person
Isaac La Grese
(active mid 1500s)
Related person
Michel Petit
(French, active ca. 1554)
Male and Female Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)
ca. 1554-1565
Watercolor, gouache, black ink, and white lead pigment over traces of black chalk on three sheets of ivory paper, pieced and formerly mounted on an album page
Overall (irregular): 11 × 12 5/16 in. (27.9 × 31.3 cm)
Gift of Nathaniel H. Bishop
1889.10.4.13
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"
InscribedWith text in French, Greek, and Latin [see unicode field] including the following credits:
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Collections
- Rare Watercolors of European Birds, 1540-1590
Pierre Vase
ca. 1554-1564
1889.10.3.18
