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JAY T. SNIDER COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS
VARNIER, G. (fl. 19th century). "Album d’Oiseaux." France, 19th century.
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VARNIER, G. (fl. 19th century). "Album d’Oiseaux." France, 19th century.
Folio album (453 x 350mm). 12 watercolors mounted on grey card, each in an octagonal mat with gilt edges and ink ruled border, interleaved with tissue guards. Contemporary brown morocco, gilt title, gilt edges, metal clasps (rebacked with original spine laid down).
An album of luminously colored chinoiserie watercolors of birds in botanical settings. While the birds are depicted with recognizable body types—including pheasants, finches, and jays—their bright coloring is not from nature. The stylized, planate renderings are clearly influenced by Chinese designs for porcelain, while also partaking of the “primitive” style in vogue among French avant-garde artists in the second half of the nineteenth century. Rather than zoological specimens, these birds have more in common with the mythological Phoenix and Firebird, which inspired both visual and performance artists in fin-de-siècle France.
Folio album (453 x 350mm). 12 watercolors mounted on grey card, each in an octagonal mat with gilt edges and ink ruled border, interleaved with tissue guards. Contemporary brown morocco, gilt title, gilt edges, metal clasps (rebacked with original spine laid down).
An album of luminously colored chinoiserie watercolors of birds in botanical settings. While the birds are depicted with recognizable body types—including pheasants, finches, and jays—their bright coloring is not from nature. The stylized, planate renderings are clearly influenced by Chinese designs for porcelain, while also partaking of the “primitive” style in vogue among French avant-garde artists in the second half of the nineteenth century. Rather than zoological specimens, these birds have more in common with the mythological Phoenix and Firebird, which inspired both visual and performance artists in fin-de-siècle France.