Name: GERMAN SCHOOL, 18TH or 19TH CENTURY
Brand: A still life with a mouse eating a candle, a caterpillar, a moth and a tomato plant
Price: 3800.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

GERMAN SCHOOL, 18TH or 19TH CENTURY
A still life with a mouse eating a candle, a caterpillar, a moth and a tomato plant
watercolor and bodycolor
12³⁄₄ x 9¹⁄₄ in. (33 x 23.5 cm)

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Lot Essay

While this charming sheet appears to have been drawn in the 18th or 19th century, it recalls natural history drawings by earlier artists such as Georg Flegel (1566-1638) and Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1601) (see F. Koreny, Albrecht Dürer und die Tier- und Pflanzenstudien der Renaissance, exhib. cat., Vienna, Albertina, 1985, nos. 91-93, ill.).