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Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
Le propriétaire est connu. Si elle est exposée aujourd’hui, le musée ne le dit pas, et l’on ne nous a pas appris à deviner.
When the Bruges mayor Joseph van Huerne rebound the albums from the Historia Naturalis in the early 19th century, he had the drawings mounted on folios with ruled borders, with the name of each creature written in the Dutch, Latin and French forms of the time. He also
commissioned contemporary artists to add watercolour foregrounds and settings, such as the slightly awkward brick wall in the bottom left corner of this drawing.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam