Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
JACQUES BARRABAND | WESTERN PAROTIA BIRD OF PARADISE (PAROTIA SEFILATA)
Auction Closed
January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
JACQUES BARRABAND
Aubusson 1767/8 - 1809 Lyon
WESTERN PAROTIA BIRD OF PARADISE (PAROTIA SEFILATA)
Watercolor and gouache over black chalk, heightened with gold;
signed in brown ink, lower centre: Barraband f.
and bears numbering in pencil, lower right: No 19
519 by 385 mm; 20½ by 15⅛ in
Marcel Jeanson (1885-1942),
sale of his collection, Monaco, Sotheby's, 16 June 1988, lot 225;
with W. Graham Arader, New York
Engraved as plate 12 of François Le Vaillant's Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Rolliers, published in 1803.