The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part II
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part II
Auction Closed
November 29, 03:25 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Attributed to Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip born Rifer De Courcelles (1781-1851)
A pileated woodpecker
Watercolour and gouache on paper
440 x 305mm., window mounted
The Fairhaven inventories attribute this very fine unsigned drawing to Pauline Knip.
Pauline Knip (1781-1851) was a respected ornithological artist, the student of Jacques Barraband. Between 1808 and 1814 she exhibited her works at the Paris salon, receiving an award in 1810. She illustrated Temminck's Les Pigeons, of which Sitwell notes: "Superbly painted and reproduced these are among the finest of all bird plates".
(Cf. Sitwell-Ripley, Fine Bird Books, 113.)