- Bib ID:
- 2170950
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Bevalet, Antoine-Germain, 1779-1850
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [18--]
- 1 painting : watercolour and pencil ; image 26.8 x 18.8 cm., on sheet 37.6 x 29.5 cm.
- Notes:
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- Signed lower left corner in ink.
- Painting of a magpie likely to have been captured during Captain Freycinet's visit to Sydney in November to December 1819. The painting is a portrait, taken from life, of an individual bird which was presented by Freycinet to the Paris Museum, and which survived in Paris for at least 4 years.
- Title from Christie's auction catalogue: The Freycinet collection, Thursday 26 September 2002, lot 91. Artist listed as "E. Bevalet".
- Condition: Good. Small hole top centre.
- Inscription: "Mauvais refait"--Upper right across border in pencil and mostly erased (partially covered by mount)
- Inscription: "Bon a graver [...]"--Bottom centre of sheet (covered by mount)
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136797350
- Source of Acquisition:
- Part of the Freycinet Collection of Southern Equities Corporation Ltd.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1850
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1899
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