French School

Study of a male and female Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)



French School - Study of a male and female Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)



French School
Study of a male and female Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)
17th Century
233 x 310 mm
Pencil, watercolour and gouache on vellum
Sale Bonhams, London, 3 December 2014


Provenance

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
Cassiano dal Pozzo
by descent to his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo
by descent to his son, Gabriele dal Pozzo
by descent to his son, Cosimo Antonio dal Pozzo
by whom sold to Pope Clement XI, 1703
thence by descent to Cardinal Alessandro Albani, 1714
from whom acquired by James Adam for King George III, 1762
sold from the Royal Library, Windsor, early 1920s
art market, London
Sir Owen Morshead, and by descent through his family
Sale Bonhams, London, 3 December 2014, nr. 1