Sujet

A Perch of Birds, c1880. Creator: Hector Giacomelli.

Légende

A Perch of Birds, c1880. Twenty-four finches, varying in pose and color, are perched in a row. This watercolor is a variant of one of the artist's most popular subjects, "Un bâton de cage." Another variation of this composition in the Lucas Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art is inscribed: "Giacomelli a Mr. Lucas affecteux souvenir d'une aquarelle." Henri Beraldi wrote of this artist, "Giacomelli is the Van Huysum [Jan Van Huysum, 1682-1749, Dutch flower-painter] of tiny birds, tender and ravishing, which give the impression of being pensive. The bird is to Giacomelli what the cat is to Lambert [Louis-Eugène Lambert, 1825-1900, French painter who specialized in cat subjects]. A respectable bird must be a Giacomelli bird; A non-Giacomelli bird is a false bird," (H. Beraldi, "Les Graveurs du XIXE siècle," Paris, 1885-92, 7:105).

Date

01 janv. 0001

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B21_411

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

22,9Mo (853,1Ko) / 42,0cm x 13,6cm / 4960 x 1611 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe animal animals arts bird birds country French France art continent museum European color colourful perching songbird location century perched Colour finch 19th century finches nineteenth century passerine in a row Walters Art Museum Heritage Art 19th-century watercolour over graphite underdrawing heightened with white and gum on cream thick heavily textured wove paper Hector Giacomelli Giacomelli Hector