Black-Bellied Sandgrouse Female Pterocles orientalis
$28,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
An outstanding example of the work of Nicolas Robert, the greatest natural history artist of the seventeenth century, from the celebrated Marcel Jeanson collection. The subject is the female Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis , a steppe and desert bird of Iberia, North Africa, and western Asia, rare in France in Robert's day and prized in princely ménageries and cabinets. The female's cryptic plumage is rendered with exceptional delicacy: finely barred
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