Design for a Border with a Portrait of Baron Cuvier

Jean-Baptiste Arnout

Associated Names
Jean-Baptiste Arnout

Artist, French, 1788 - after 1865

This is a drawing of an ornate decorative border featuring a variety of natural elements. The rectangular blank space is framed with intricate pencil drawings depicting flora and fauna. The border includes tropical plants, a leopard, a fox, a snake, various birds, a person, an animal, plants, flowers, animals such as frogs, fish, and reptiles, insects like butterflies and dragonflies, fruits, foliage, and additional natural elements. Two small drawings are included within the vertical borders, and the bottom center features a prominent butterfly image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on tracing paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Arthur L. Liebman

  • Dimensions

    overall: 28 x 36.6 cm (11 x 14 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1992.87.7


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. M. H. Ryerson, Lake Forest, IL; Arthur Liebman [d. 1991], Lake Forest, IL; bequest 1992, to NGA

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: J.B. Arnout inv. et del.; upper center in graphite: BARON CUVIER; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Arnout

Wikidata ID

Q64581115

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