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Prints and drawings Ornithology Gombaud, Ogier de gombaud - 003 autre roi des vautours
Prints and drawings Ornithology Gombaud, Ogier de gombaud - 003 autre roi des vautours
gombaud - 003 autre roi des vautours
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Price: € 100,00
Artist: Ogier de Gombaud (French ?-1823)
Provenance: The original print is in the Library of Teylers Museum (the first and oldest museum in the Netherlands - 1784)
Technique: A facsimile giclée print on acid-free paper and archival ink designed to resist fading and weathering so that it will endure for future use.
Paper size: 45,0 x 31,0 cm; 17.7 x 12.2 inches
Description: Gombaud, Ogier de, ca 1745 - ca 1820
In the library of Teylers Museum in Haarlem (The Netherlands) are a collection of aquarelles (watercolors) of birds from Cayenne (French Guiana) and Suriname painted by Ogier de Gombaud. The collection consists of 168 plates (size 45 x 31 cm) and is bound in two tomes (books).
De Gombaud called his book: Les Oiseaux de la Gyanne, peints d’un fini precieux et avec autant de verité qu’il a été possible. dédiée à l’Eternel, créateur de tant de merveilles. - and it was signed with: Cayenne, 30 aoust 1808, Ogier de Gombaud. At the bottom of all plates is a handwritten caption of a few lines which gives the French names of the birds and sometimes some peculiarities. Every print is (with the exception of one) signed and dated. Sometimes even twice. 145 plates (8 from 1803, 38 from 1804, 18 from 1805, 33 from 1806, 23 from 1807, 19 from 1808 and 4 from 1809 ) are from Cayenne and 23 plates ( 12 from 1810, 8 from 1811 and 1 from 1814, 1815 and 1817) are from Suriname.
It is clear that this is a collection of original plates and not a printed publication.
Gombaud is a mysterious figure . We know that he worked for the Ministry of Defense in Paris before 1803. His name is found on a list of 40 people .who were deported with the frigate La Cybàle on the 17e pluviose of the year XII when Napoleon was still first Consul He lived as a deported person from 1803 until 1809 in Cayenne and went in 1810 to Suriname. Was he released or did he escape? I believe that he received his freedom as in 1809 an Anglo-Portuguese naval squadron took French Guiana (ousting governor Victor Hugues) and gave it to the Portuguese in Brazil.
Also the fact that he took his large collection of drawings with him makes our assumption reasonable. Already before his deportation did Gombaud paint birds because in the Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturel in Paris one can find 27 plates on velin paper with birds drawn by Gombaud during the years 1792 and 1793.
He must have died in Suriname at a very old age as he already in 1815 said that he was plus "sexagenaire" (already over the period between 60 and 69)
His watercolors have never been replicated and are still unique works of art. This is the first time that we are able to offer the public our facsimile-giclées of these important drawings of birds..
In the library of Teylers Museum in Haarlem (The Netherlands) are a collection of aquarelles (watercolors) of birds from Cayenne (French Guiana) and Suriname painted by Ogier de Gombaud. The collection consists of 168 plates (size 45 x 31 cm) and is bound in two tomes (books).
De Gombaud called his book: Les Oiseaux de la Gyanne, peints d’un fini precieux et avec autant de verité qu’il a été possible. dédiée à l’Eternel, créateur de tant de merveilles. - and it was signed with: Cayenne, 30 aoust 1808, Ogier de Gombaud. At the bottom of all plates is a handwritten caption of a few lines which gives the French names of the birds and sometimes some peculiarities. Every print is (with the exception of one) signed and dated. Sometimes even twice. 145 plates (8 from 1803, 38 from 1804, 18 from 1805, 33 from 1806, 23 from 1807, 19 from 1808 and 4 from 1809 ) are from Cayenne and 23 plates ( 12 from 1810, 8 from 1811 and 1 from 1814, 1815 and 1817) are from Suriname.
It is clear that this is a collection of original plates and not a printed publication.
Gombaud is a mysterious figure . We know that he worked for the Ministry of Defense in Paris before 1803. His name is found on a list of 40 people .who were deported with the frigate La Cybàle on the 17e pluviose of the year XII when Napoleon was still first Consul He lived as a deported person from 1803 until 1809 in Cayenne and went in 1810 to Suriname. Was he released or did he escape? I believe that he received his freedom as in 1809 an Anglo-Portuguese naval squadron took French Guiana (ousting governor Victor Hugues) and gave it to the Portuguese in Brazil.
Also the fact that he took his large collection of drawings with him makes our assumption reasonable. Already before his deportation did Gombaud paint birds because in the Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturel in Paris one can find 27 plates on velin paper with birds drawn by Gombaud during the years 1792 and 1793.
He must have died in Suriname at a very old age as he already in 1815 said that he was plus "sexagenaire" (already over the period between 60 and 69)
His watercolors have never been replicated and are still unique works of art. This is the first time that we are able to offer the public our facsimile-giclées of these important drawings of birds..
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