Description: Beautfully detailed print superbly matted in a nice real wood frame. Outer frame is 19.5 x 21.5 inches, about 1.75 thick. Questions welcome, thanx for looking and thanx for supporting small business.This magnificent engraving was created by the collaboration of two early 19th century Frenchmen Francois Levaillant (1753-1824) a naturalist and Jacques Barraband. Levaillant spent 6 months in Africa recording the habits of birds, amassing a major collection of specimens, and discovering over 50 new species. He accumulated a large work titled Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique, containing over 300 illustrations, and admired today for the quality of the prints and lively style of writing. The artist Levaillant hired to created the illustrations for his sumptuous ornithological monographs was Jacques Barraband (1767-1809).This parrot “portrait” was included as an illustration to Levaillant’s fundamental treatise on parrots titled, Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets (1801-1805), a landmark in bird publications due to its color plates. Barraband is considered the foremost 19th century French ornithological artist, admired for his ability to bring his subjects to life. His drawings for the Perroquets are among the finest of all bird prints. His bird portraits are just that, they are not scientific illustrations representative of the species, but portraits of individual birds. This is evident in each bird’s position, posture and the lifelike engraving of the filaments of each bird feather. They are as detailed as a photograph.
Price: 249 USD
Location: Maryville, Tennessee
End Time: 2024-03-10T11:01:06.000Z
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Type: Print
Theme: Art
Framing: Framed
Subject: Parrots
