“Les Bison: Aquarelle originale de Ch. Aurant”; pencil caption title on mount below image , signed

by the artist in lower left corner by Ch Aurant

$1,250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Place unidentified, 19th century. Original watercolor, 9 7/8 x 15 1/2 inches, mounted to a larger sheet of thicker paper taken from an 18th-century book margins browned ; in shades of blue, green, and brown, the scene centers upon four bison with others at a distance, all emerging from a forest at the edge of an embankment, beyond them rolling prairie hills; the bison faces are somewhat anthropomorphised, but an appealing rendering of a part of the American West that has vanished. Ch. Aurant,

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