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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.