Autour à collier roux – jeune premier âge / attributed to Jean-Gabriel Prêtre

P3/289

fonds

probably 1821

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

9676389

1 watercolour - gouache - 49 x 35 cm

Jean-Gabriel Prêtre was born on 20 December 1768 in Geneva, Switzerland. He worked as a natural history illustrator at Château de Malmaison, home of Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais, and as a painter at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (National Museum of Natural History) in Paris, France. He died on 29 April 1849.

Source:
Wikipedia. "Jean-Gabriel Prêtre". Accessed 22 December 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Gabriel_Pr%C3%AAtre

Previously auctioned by Lewis & Grant Auctions in Newport, Kentucky, USA on 31 May 2023

Watercolour of a brown goshawk bird from about 1821, attributed to Jean-Gabriel Prêtre.

French, English

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Published as plate 93 in the sixteenth livraison (part) of "Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux : pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, édition in-folio et in-4⁰ de l'Imprimerie royale, 1770" by C.J. Temminck and Baron Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse, illustrated by MM. Huet and Pretre, between 1820 and 1839. Publisher Legras Imbert and Co., Strasbourg.

Title taken from annotation on recto written twice: "Autour à collier roux – jeune premier âge".

Ink annotation of "93" (referring to the plate number) in the lower left. Pencil annotation along top edge: "By either Pretre or Huet artist's own copy original watercolour [illegible] for Temminck ; #B.2". Huet refers to Nicolas Huet the Younger, a French natural history illustrator active between 1788 and 1827.

Date taken from information provided by vendor specifying a publication date of 1821 for the work in which this illustration first appeared.