VINTAGE Jacques Barraband Hand Colored Etching PARAKEETS Framed FREE SHIPPING

Description: A must have for any bird, Jacques Barraband, parrot, or parakeet enthusiast!!! Set of two beautifully illustrated framed prints. I believe these are from the 1960s. They still have the original price tags on them which states $135. That was almost sixty years ago and they're still as fresh and exquisite as they were back then. They are each triple matted in gold frames. Their sizes are @ 10.5" x 14.5" print area view and 19" x 23" full frame view. Both frames have several scratches on their fronts from storage. If you enlarge the photo's you'll see them. The one on the left has this inscription on the picture: Variete de la Perruche a large queue (Variety of the Broad-tailed Parakeet)Barraband Prix De l'Imprimerie de Langlois The one on the right has this: Perruche omnicolore (Omni colored Parakeet)Barraband Prix De l'Imprimerie de Langlois Barraband has become extremely popular lately and some prints are listed on eBay at print only $2,000. You can get both of these beauties with frames and free shipping for $1,800 Here is Barraband's Biography copied from Wikipedia: Jacques Barraband (or Pierre-Paul Barraband) (1767? (baptized 1768), Aubusson (Creuse), France–1 October 1809, Lyon) was a French zoological and botanical illustrator, renowned for his lifelike renderings of tropical birds. His pictures were based on mounted specimens and his illustration was considered the most accurate ones made during the early 1800s.Barraband was born to Jacques Barraband and Marie-Anne Bebit in 1767 (or 1768) and was baptized on August 31, 1768 at the church of Sainte-Croix in Aubusson. His father worked in the local tapestry factory and the son also worked there briefly after studying art at the local school, which was famed for producing several artists of note, including Francis Roby de Faureix and Etienne de La Seiglière de La Cour. He later moved to Paris, working at tapestry and carpet stores on rue de la Huchette and studying art at l’Academie royale de peinture under Joseph-Laurent Malaine. During the French exposition of 1798, he produced some paintings for the carpet manufacturers Gobelins and Savonnerie and for the porcelain makers Dihl and Gerhard. He also made illustrations of insects for the French naturalist Sonnini and illustrated a book by Fournier on Egypt. He then produced a series of watercolours of birds and flowers between 1801 and 1804 by direct commission of Napoleon Bonaparte. Among his most famous works are those he made to illustrate François Le Vaillant's scientific studies on parrots (perroquets), birds of paradise (oiseaux de paradis), rollers (rolliers), toucans (toucans), barbets (barbus), sugarbirds (promerops), bee-eaters (guêpiers), trogons (couroucous), and turacos (touracos). One of his students was Pauline Rifer de Courcelles who later married the artist Joseph August Knip. Pauline de Courcelles illustrated the birds in Histoire Naturelle de Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers by Anselme-Gaetan Desmarest (1805).[1]Napoleon I hired Barraband to decorate the banquet hall at St. Cloud.[2]He was appointed a professor at the school of Arts et Dessin de Lyon in 1807 and died two years later. His only daughter Adeline became a musician.

Price: 990 USD

Location: Saint Charles, Missouri

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