Live Auction 5438The Sunday Sale
AFTER JACQUES BARRABAND
Lot 140

AFTER JACQUES BARRABAND

Closed30 November 2008

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GBP 400

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AFTER JACQUES BARRABAND
Le petit Toucan, à ventre rouge, no.8
engraving by Pérée, printed in colours by Rousset, narrow margins
S. 21 x 14½ in. (53.5 x 37 cm.)
Together with two smaller bookplates, Fernelle du Grand Cotinga and La Pie Bleue à tête noire, printed in colours by Langlois - S. 15 x 11½ in. (38 x 29 cm.); and two further engravings, after Martinet with later hand colouring; all in bird's eye maple frames (5)

Specialist note

The present lot comprises plates originally designed for Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis written by François Levaillant (1753-1824). The plates of exotic birds which illustrate Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis owe much to the remarkable gifts of Jacques Barraband (1767-1809), who was 'considered among the best bird artists of the time [whose] work for Le Vaillant was the climax of his career' (C. Jackson, Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World, Woodbridge: 1999, p.148).