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Property from the Estate of Richard J. Schwartz
ÉDOUARD TRAVIÈS (DOULLENS 1809-1876 PARIS)
Studies of birds: Livingstone's tauraco, Red-winged crested cuckoo, and Common cuckoo; Royal flycatcher and Scarlet-spectacled wattle-eye; Common redstart, Nightingale, and Black redstart; Helmeted guinea fowl, Little bustard, and Great bustard; Red-billed hornbill and Rhinoceros hornbill; European roller, Broad-billed roller, and Nutcracker; Great crested grebe and Slavonian grebe; Crimson-backed tanager, Blacked-faced cuckoo-shrike, and Sulphur-breasted bush shrike; Magpie goose and Crested auklet; and Red-headed bunting, Eastern bluebird, and Bluethroat
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ÉDOUARD TRAVIÈS (DOULLENS 1809-1876 PARIS)
Studies of birds: Livingstone's tauraco, Red-winged crested cuckoo, and Common cuckoo; Royal flycatcher and Scarlet-spectacled wattle-eye; Common redstart, Nightingale, and Black redstart; Helmeted guinea fowl, Little bustard, and Great bustard; Red-billed hornbill and Rhinoceros hornbill; European roller, Broad-billed roller, and Nutcracker; Great crested grebe and Slavonian grebe; Crimson-backed tanager, Blacked-faced cuckoo-shrike, and Sulphur-breasted bush shrike; Magpie goose and Crested auklet; and Red-headed bunting, Eastern bluebird, and Bluethroat
all signed and dated 'Edouard Traviés p.t' and 'Edouard Traviés p.xit' and dated between 1833 and 1836
pencil, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, bodycolor, framing lines in pencil
each approximately 6 ¾ x 4 in. (17 x 10 cm.)
Studies of birds: Livingstone's tauraco, Red-winged crested cuckoo, and Common cuckoo; Royal flycatcher and Scarlet-spectacled wattle-eye; Common redstart, Nightingale, and Black redstart; Helmeted guinea fowl, Little bustard, and Great bustard; Red-billed hornbill and Rhinoceros hornbill; European roller, Broad-billed roller, and Nutcracker; Great crested grebe and Slavonian grebe; Crimson-backed tanager, Blacked-faced cuckoo-shrike, and Sulphur-breasted bush shrike; Magpie goose and Crested auklet; and Red-headed bunting, Eastern bluebird, and Bluethroat
all signed and dated 'Edouard Traviés p.t' and 'Edouard Traviés p.xit' and dated between 1833 and 1836
pencil, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, bodycolor, framing lines in pencil
each approximately 6 ¾ x 4 in. (17 x 10 cm.)
Provenance
Marcel Jeanson; Sotheby's, Monaco, 16 June 1988, lots 303, 308, 335, 327, 299, 331, 341, 323, 291, and 326.