JACQUES BARRABAND | MALE BLUE-THROATED BARBET (MEGALAIMA ASIATICA)
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January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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JACQUES BARRABAND
Aubusson 1767/8 - 1809 Lyon
MALE BLUE-THROATED BARBET (MEGALAIMA ASIATICA)
Watercolor and gouache over black chalk;
signed in brown ink, below the branch: Barraband.
and bears numbering in pencil, lower right: No 21.
520 by 387 mm; 20½ by 15¼ in
Marcel Jeanson (1885-1942),
sale of his collection, Monaco, Sotheby's, 16 June 1988, lot 241;
with W. Graham Arader, New York
Engraved as plate 21 of François Le Vaillant's Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Rolliers, published in 1803.