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Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip born Rifer De Courcelles (1781-1851).
Brush Bronze Wing, Phaps elegans. Native to Northern parts of Australia.
Original drawing on vellum, pencil, black chalk, bodycolour and watercolour, signed 'Pauline de Courcelles f. Knip, peintre d'his. nature de sa majesté l'Impératrice Marie Louise' and dated '1812'.
Inscribed in pencil 'Colombe Labrador, terre Diémen, Columba elegans'. Within a large gilt border, each corner decorated with a star equally painted in gold, recently framed in an 'Empire' frame, gilt.
24¾ x 19in. (63 x 48 cm.)
Pauline Knip was a natural history painter and eminent pupil of Jacques Barraband. She exhibited in the Paris Salon between 1808 and 1814 where she received an award in 1810. She is principally known for having illustrated the monumental work by Temminck Les Pigeons, published from 1809-1843, of which Sitwell notes: "Superbly painted and reproduced these are among the finest of all bird plates".
The drawing is dedicated 'A sa Majesté le Roy de Rome', better known as Napoléon II (1811-1832).
(Cf. Sitwell-Ripley, Fine Bird Books, 113.)
Brush Bronze Wing, Phaps elegans. Native to Northern parts of Australia.
Original drawing on vellum, pencil, black chalk, bodycolour and watercolour, signed 'Pauline de Courcelles f. Knip, peintre d'his. nature de sa majesté l'Impératrice Marie Louise' and dated '1812'.
Inscribed in pencil 'Colombe Labrador, terre Diémen, Columba elegans'. Within a large gilt border, each corner decorated with a star equally painted in gold, recently framed in an 'Empire' frame, gilt.
24¾ x 19in. (63 x 48 cm.)
Pauline Knip was a natural history painter and eminent pupil of Jacques Barraband. She exhibited in the Paris Salon between 1808 and 1814 where she received an award in 1810. She is principally known for having illustrated the monumental work by Temminck Les Pigeons, published from 1809-1843, of which Sitwell notes: "Superbly painted and reproduced these are among the finest of all bird plates".
The drawing is dedicated 'A sa Majesté le Roy de Rome', better known as Napoléon II (1811-1832).
(Cf. Sitwell-Ripley, Fine Bird Books, 113.)
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