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Hondecoeter's paintings featured geese (brent goose, Egyptian goose and red-breasted goose), fieldfares, partridges, pigeons, ducks, northern cardinal, magpies and peacocks, but also African grey crowned cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Indonesian yellow-crested cockatoos, an Indonesian purple-naped lory and grey-headed lovebirds from Madagascar.
Scene: Canada geese taking flight in waterscape. White Herons, oil on canvas: 1929: 40 in x 32.3 in (101.6 cm x 82 cm) IAP 8A220036: Scene: herons (3) wading in lake amidst lily pads; two herons at left look right (one stands taller; second one's neck is swooped down); heron at right faces left with beak pointing toward water. White Herons,
Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the forefront of shinsaku-hanga and shin-hanga art movements. [1] Ohara Koson was famous as a master of kachō-e (bird-and-flower) designs. Throughout a prolific career ...
They are displayed in several parts of the palace, including the new Cumberland Art Gallery. [1] In September 2015, the Royal Collection recorded 542 works (only those with images) as being located at Hampton Court, mostly paintings and furniture, but also ceramics and sculpture. The full current list can be obtained from their website. [2]
Clockwise from top left: blue cranes, sandhill cranes, grey crowned cranes, and red-crowned cranes Cranes are tall wading birds in the family Gruidae. Cranes are found on every continent except for South America and Antarctica and inhabit a variety of open habitats, although most species prefer to live near water. [ 1 ]
This is a list of notable paintings by Georges Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891). He is a Neo-Impressionist painter and together with Paul Signac noted for being the inventor of pointillism . [ 1 ]
Cranes are large, long-legged and long-necked birds. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back. Most have elaborate and noisy courting displays or "dances". China has the greatest diversity of cranes of any country. Demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo; Siberian crane, Leucogeranus ...
A painting of a sub-adult by Shaikh Zayn-al-Din (c. 1780) made for Lady Impey, probably based on a bird in the menagerie at Calcutta The Mir Shikars, traditional bird hunters of Bihar , India had a ritual practice that required a young man to capture a black-necked stork "Loha Sarang" alive before he could marry.