Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (fl.1830-1840)

Cacatua galerita (Sulphur-crested cockatoo) and Cacutua moluccensis (Salmon-crested cockatoo)

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Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (fl.1830-1840)
Cacatua galerita (Sulphur-crested cockatoo) and Cacutua moluccensis (Salmon-crested cockatoo)
signed 'J.G.Prêtre' (lower left, in the margin)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of white, on the artist's gold-lined mount, unframed
6¼ x 3½ in. (15.9 x 8.9 cm. )

Provenance

Marcel Jeanson.

Engraved

M.A. Richard, Oeuvres Complètes de Buffon, Paris, 1825-8, vol. IV.

Lot Essay

Jean-Gabriel Prêtre worked in the circle of Edouard Traviès (1809-c. 1865) together with P-L. Oudart (1796-1850) and produced watercolours for the engraved plates for the different editions of M.A. Richard's Oeuvres Complètes de Buffon, Paris, 1825-8, 1834, 1838 and 1845.
The present watercolour was engraved for volume IV of the 1925-8 edition.
The Sulphur-crested cockatoo is native to New Guinea and Australia and the Salmon-crested cockatoo to South Moluccas, Indonesia.

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