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Two turtle doves on a branch.<\/strong> Drawing in watercolour and bodycolour by Aert Schouman<\/strong>, executed around 1750<\/strong>. On the verso, annotated in Schouman\u2019s own hand: \u201chet bovenste een tortelduyf, dank het wijfie van onse inlandts. en de onderste een kaaps tortelduyfje bijde levendig\u201d<\/em> [\u201cThe upper one is a turtle dove, namely the female of our native (Dutch) species; and the lower one a Cape turtle dove, both rendered in a life-like manner.]. With watermark of the Strasbourg Lily. Size: 36.4 \u00d7 25.5 cm.<\/p>\n

Aert Schouman (1710\u20131792) was an artist of remarkably wide range, but his international reputation rests chiefly on his painted\u2014and especially his watercoloured\u2014bird studies, through which he secured a singular and exceptional position within art history.<\/p>\n

As far as is known, Schouman began making this type of bird portrait, such as the present doves, as early as 1734. He made them not only for collectors of drawings, but also for scholars and owners of cabinets of naturalia, who greatly valued his scrupulous and highly naturalistic treatment of proportions, contours, postures and colours.<\/p>\n

Schouman usually chose a very low viewpoint, creating a broad expanse of sky with subtly painted clouds. This gives the impression that the viewer is looking upward\u2014an entirely natural perspective when observing birds.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the eighteenth century, interest in nature grew among an ever-widening public, including in the Netherlands. This curiosity extended to the exotic flora and fauna of overseas trading regions, from which interested professors, physicians, clergymen, merchants and government officials assembled natural specimens. As a result, numerous private cabinets of naturalia came into being. Schouman\u2019s watercolours were acquired by such collectors not only as autonomous works of art, but also\u2014indeed above all\u2014as study material for their own collections.<\/p>\n

In this drawing we see a Dutch turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur<\/em><\/a>), together with \u201ca Cape turtle dove\u201d. By this, Schouman is likely to have meant a pigeon (perhaps Treron calvus<\/em><\/a>) \u2018from Africa\u2019, rather than specifically from the Dutch Cape Colony<\/a>. This is a comparative study that cannot have taken place in nature. Exotic birds from Africa and Asia reached the Dutch Republic through the trading networks of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), with the Cape of Good Hope serving as an important hub. Within this context, such animals were kept, studied and depicted as objects of scientific curiosity and collecting culture, with geographically disparate species deliberately brought together in order to make differences in form, colour and origin visible.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that Schouman produced around 1,000 bird watercolours, depicting more than 240 different species.<\/p>\n

Writing about Schouman in 1842, J. Immerzeel observed:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe field in which Schouman particularly distinguished himself was that of birds. His birds are irreproachable in drawing, graceful and distinctive in posture and movement, downy, velvety, elegant or richly variegated in plumage. To this he united an ease of execution that testified to the certainty with which he handled both brush and pen. Nor was there any lack of connoisseurs who knew how to appreciate his work, and collectors gladly opened their portfolios to his finely worked bird drawings, executed with watercolour.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Price: Euro 6.500,- (incl. frame)<\/p>\n

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