Edouard Traviès (b. 1809) (after)
Becquet, Paris (printer)
Le Perroquet à Tète Jaune (Buffon) -- Psittacus ochrocephalus (Gmelin)
[Yellow-headed Parrot]
from Les Oiseaux Les Plus Remarquables par leurs formes et leurs couleurs [The Birds Most Remarkable for Their Forms and Their Colors]
Gambart, Junin et Co., 25 Berners Street and Oxford Street, London: c. 1857
Hand-colored lithograph
13 x 16 inches, overall
12 x 15 inches image, approximately
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Parrot Lithograph
After Edouard Traviès, London: c. 1857
After Edouard Traviès, London: c. 1857
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Natural history print of the Latin-American yellow-headed parrot shown landing on a frond of an umbrella palm, apparently watching the viewer. Traviès's skillful rendering of the bird in flight and the surrounding environment brings the scene to life.
Edouard Traviès was born in Doullens, France, the younger brother of the caricaturist Charles Joseph Traviès de Villier (1804-1859). Throughout his career he concentrated on natural history subjects in watercolor and lithography, frequently lithographing his own work. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1831 and 1866. His greatest published work was published simultaneously in Paris and London circa 1857: Les Oiseaux Les Plus Remarquables par leurs formes et leurs couleurs. [The Birds Most Remarkable for Their Forms and Their Colors.] Traviès was among the earliest artists to place his natural history renderings in the context of the animal's natural habitat and the subtitle of Les Oiseaux Les Plus Remarquables promised "Varied Scenes of Their Behavior and Their Habits." While best known as a bird artist, he also illustrated other types of land and marine animals, in volumes such as the Comte de Lacepede's Histoire Naturelle (1867).