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Antoine Germain Bévalet Paris 1779 - 1850
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Description
- Antoine Germain Bévalet
- a botanical album with 18 sheets of fish, shells, minerals, seeds, flowers and other curiosities
signed in a trompe l'oeil calling-card within the frontispiece: BEVALET/Peintre à Paris,/Rue Galande No. 53. Quartier St. Jacques.
- gouache on white prepared vellum with gold border, laid down on the pages of the album
Catalogue Note
Not a great deal is known of Bévalet. Taught by his father, he exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1812 and 1844, and mostly painted natural history subjects. He made two trips around the world, which clearly furnished him with numerous ideas for his work, much of which was engraved by Jean Coutant. The extraordinary polished and etched nut, depicted on the third page of this album, may well be an example of the curiosities Bévalet encountered on his travels.