Auguste Pelletier
working circa 1800-1847
UNIDENTIFIED SUGARBIRD (PROMEROPS SP.) CIRCA 1801-1805
Estimate $3,000 – $5,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY
Auguste Pelletier
working circa 1800-1847
UNIDENTIFIED SUGARBIRD (PROMEROPS SP.) CIRCA 1801-1805
watercolour heightened with white
50 X 36.4CM (SIGHT)
Provenance
Marcel Jeanson (1885-1942), France
Bibliothéque Marcel Jeanson: Deuxiéme Partie: Ornithologie, Sotheby’s, Monaco, 16 June 1988,
lot 277, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney
Literature
Francois Le Vaillant, Histoire Naturelle des Promerops et des Guepiers (et des Couroucous et Touracos, Faisant Suite a Celle des Oiseaux de Paradis), Levault,
Paris, 1807, illustrated, pl. 17
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