拍品 8
8
Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770)
Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770)

Leonia ligustrina (Lily of the Valley Bush), with two Red Admiral butterflies

細節
Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770)
Leonia ligustrina (Lily of the Valley Bush), with two Red Admiral butterflies
signed and dated 'G.D. Ehret. pinxit./1741' (lower right) and inscribed 'VITIS IDAEA palustris Americanaa oblongis Splen.foliis Pluk. T.CCCXX F. b./VITIS IDAEA foliis & facie unadonis flore Americana Pluk.' (on two ribbons attached to the stems of the plant)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with gum arabic, on vellum, unframed
16.7/8 x 12.3/8 in. (42.8 x 31.5 cm.)

拍品專文

Ehret's publication Plantae et Papiliones Rariores, Leiden, 1736, bears testimony to his talents as an artist of butterflies and not merely of plants. His depiction of the various species also classified by Linnaeus are both decorative and accurate: Ehret's interest in natural history extended also to shells, fossils and insects.