A great auk for the Sun King
This paper describes two watercolours and one engraving of the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) executed by the French painter Nicolas Robert probably between 1666 and 1670. Despite their interest as early images of this extinct species and the first ones rendered in colour, they have not been mention...
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credinunivpr:10.3366/anh.2016.0345 2023-05-15T16:22:55+02:00 A great auk for the Sun King De Lozoya, Arturo Valledor García, David González Parish, Jolyon 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2016.0345 https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full-xml/10.3366/anh.2016.0345 en eng Edinburgh University Press https://www.euppublishing.com/customer-services/librarians/text-and-data-mining-tdm Archives of Natural History volume 43, issue 1, page 41-56 ISSN 0260-9541 1755-6260 Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) History Anthropology journal-article 2016 credinunivpr https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2016.0345 2022-12-08T14:41:17Z This paper describes two watercolours and one engraving of the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) executed by the French painter Nicolas Robert probably between 1666 and 1670. Despite their interest as early images of this extinct species and the first ones rendered in colour, they have not been mentioned in the literature. The images suggest that the bird was kept alive in the menagerie at the palace in Versailles, where Robert portrayed it for Louis XIV; Robert's paintings are collectively known as “Les vélins du Roi”. Article in Journal/Newspaper Great auk Pinguinus impennis Edinburgh University Press (via Crossref) Archives of Natural History 43 1 41 56 |
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This paper describes two watercolours and one engraving of the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) executed by the French painter Nicolas Robert probably between 1666 and 1670. Despite their interest as early images of this extinct species and the first ones rendered in colour, they have not been mentioned in the literature. The images suggest that the bird was kept alive in the menagerie at the palace in Versailles, where Robert portrayed it for Louis XIV; Robert's paintings are collectively known as “Les vélins du Roi”. |
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