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C1842
Koala Brun. (Desm.) Male
Artist:
Jacques Christophe Werner (1798 - 1856)
Superb pair of stipple engravings, one of a male Koala in profile and the second, a skeletal depiction from, Dumont D’Urvilles, Voyage au pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie sur les corvettes l’Astrolabe et la Zelee, execute par ordre du roi … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Koala Brun. (Desm.) Male
Date:
C1842
Artist:
Jacques Christophe Werner (1798 - 1856)
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Stipple engraving with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
280mm
x 415mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1842
Description:
Superb pair of stipple engravings, one of a male Koala in profile and the second, a skeletal depiction from, Dumont D’Urvilles, Voyage au pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie sur les corvettes l’Astrolabe et la Zelee, execute par ordre du roi pendant les annees 1837-1838-1839-1840, Atlas zoologique, Mammiferes.
Sold as a pair.
Biography:
Jean-Charles Werner (1798-1856)
Werner was a natural history artist and comparative anatomist for the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, where he contributed some 350 paintings of animals on vellum for the famous Collection des vélins between the years 1826 and 1856. The Collection, initiated in 1631, contained work by the finest natural history artists in France, including Nicolas Robert and Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Werner provided illustrations for the publication of Dumont d’Urville’s expeditions to Australia and the South Pacific, and also worked with Cuvier, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and Henri Ducrotay de Blainville. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire named a species of monkey after him.
