Studies of birds: a golden oriole, a hoopoe, a magpie, a jay, two red-legged partridge and two green woodpeckers

Details

Josephus Augustus Knip (Tilburg 1777-1847 Berlicum)
Studies of birds: a golden oriole, a hoopoe, a magpie, a jay, two red-legged partridge and two green woodpeckers
black chalk, watercolour
22.3 x 34.7 cm.

Literature

F. Kuyvenhoven, De Familie Knip: Drie generaties kunstenaars uit Noord-Brabant, exhib. cat., Den Bosch, Noordbrabants Museum, 1988, pp. 21, 91, fig. 35 (as Josephus Augustus Knip or Henriëtte Ronner-Knip).

Exhibited

The Hague, Gemeentemuseum s-Gravenhage, Nederlandsche aquarellen van 1780-1830, 1942, no. 62 (catalogue by D.J. Balfoort and K.G. Boon).

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

In the 1988 catalogue, Fransje Kuyvenhoven pointed out that the attribution of the studies by father and daughter Knip are sometimes hard to distinguish. The present study, however, would seem to be more likely a study by J.A. Knip.

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