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Parrot (Ara)

c. 1685-1697

Workshop of Johann Teyler

Associated Names

Johann Teyler

Artist, Dutch, 1648 - after 1697

The image shows a parrot perched on a wooden stand. The parrot has blue wings and tail, a red chest, and a yellow belly. The stand is brown and sits on a green patch at the bottom of the image.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color engraving inked à la poupée on laid paper
Credit Line

Gift of A. Thompson Ellwanger III and Gregory E. Mescha in memory of Arthur R. Watson
Dimensions

sheet (cut within platemark): 20.2 x 9.4 cm (7 15/16 x 3 11/16 in.)
Accession Number

2000.17.2
Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 272, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner Inc., New York); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

C.G. Boerner LLC

Exhibition History

2004

Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

1993

The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Johannes Teyler and Dutch Colour Prints, Ad Stijnman, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2017: Part II, no. 272, ii/ii.

1999

C.G. Boerner Inc., Farbige Graphik, Düsseldorf, 1999: no. 62.

Inscriptions

by later hand, center verso in graphite: 62

Wikidata ID

Q75426335

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