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| Keywords: Hector Giacomelli - A Perch of Birds - Walters 37963 - Front Mark.jpg Twenty-four finches varying in pose and color are perched in a row This watercolor is a variant of one of the artist's most popular subjects Un b ton de cage Another variation of this composition in the Lucas Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art is inscribed Giacomelli a Mr Lucas affecteux souvenir d'une aquarelle Henri Beraldi wrote of this artist Giacomelli is the Van Huysum Jan Van Huysum 1682-1749 Dutch flower-painter of tiny birds tender and ravishing which give the impression of being pensive The bird is to Giacomelli what the cat is to Lambert Louis-Eugène Lambert 1825-1900 French painter who specialized in cat subjects A respectable bird must be a Giacomelli bird; A non-Giacomelli bird is a false bird H Beraldi Les Graveurs du XIXE siècle Paris 1885-92 7 105 circa 1880 s watercolor over graphite underdrawing heightened with white and gum on cream thick heavily textured wove paper cm 17 8 48 4 accession number 37 963 37570 William T Walters Baltimore March 21 1884 by purchase from the artist George A Lucas as agent Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1884 H Giacomelli in graphite reinforced with watercolor in lower left edge partially cropped The Essence of Line A Supple Brush The Flowering of Continental Watercolors The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979 A Connoisseur's Portfolio French Master Drawings The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1997-1998 Botanical Delights Floral Motifs in 19th-Century Art Strathmore Hall Art Center North Bethesda; Academy of the Arts Easton Easton; Government House Annapolis 1998-1999 A Discerning Eye Nineteenth-century Drawings and Watercolors Academy of the Arts Easton Easton 1998-1999 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D A Connoisseur's Portfolio The Essence of Line Hector Giacomelli Paintings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
