Old Master and British Works on Paper
Old Master and British Works on Paper
Nicolas Robert
An Allium plant
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January 25, 07:20 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Nicolas Robert
Orléans or Langres 1614 - 1685 Paris
An Allium plant
Watercolour with touches of gouache, within gold framing lines, on prepared vellum;
bears numbering in black chalk, lower right: 798.
410 by 325 mm; 16 by 12¾ in.
Nicolas Robert was perhaps the greatest French natural history artist of the 17th century, producing considerable numbers of superb watercolours on vellum, depicting flowers, plants, birds and other animals, primarily executed for Gaston d'Orléans, brother of King Louis XIII. Today, his works can be found in various private and public collections, but the largest number is at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. This collection contains over 6,000 watercolours by the artist, including all the known drawings of birds other than those formerly in the Marcel Jeanson Collection.1
Another example of Robert's flower studies will be offered in Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries (sale N11147, lot 51).
1. Sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 'The Marcel Jeanson Collection', 16 June 1988