COLMAR SCHOOL (Early 19th Century), South Rhineland

Natur Geschichte: an album of seventy four studies of Animals

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COLMAR SCHOOL (Early 19th Century), South Rhineland
Natur Geschichte: an album of seventy four studies of Animals
all the sheets inscribed in French, the album spine with title NATUR GESCHICH[TE]/EINZIG/BAND.
oil on paper
each sheet 8 x 10in. (20 x 25.4cm.)
the album 9¼ x 11½in. (23.5 x 29.2cm.) overall

拍品專文

The album includes a mixture of domestic animals native to Europe (taureau du Cotantin [France], le lapin, la brebis) and wild animals from around the world (l'ours blanc terrestre, le linx du Canada, l'hippopotame, l'Elan d'Afrique), many of the latter images presumably copied from earlier printed 'bestiaries'.