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Turdoide ensanglanté, male [current name: Flame-throated Bulbul. Rubigula gularis]

1821
Not on view
Prêtre was born in Geneva but pursued his career in France as a painter and draftsman of natural history subjects. He joined the Napoleonic survey of Europe between 1798-1801 and some of his drawings were then engraved to illustrate Le Description de l'Egypte (1809-29). From this point forward he collaborated on various projects with Nicolas Huet the younger (1770-1830), also part of the survey team, then appointed painter to the Muséeum d'Historie Naturelle (Natural History Museum) and to the ménagerie of the Empress Josephine. This watercolor of a Flame-thrated Bulbol, a bird endemic to south-western India, was the basis of a hand-colored engraving published in Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux: pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon [New collection of colored plates of birds: to serve as a sequel and complement to Buffon’s illuminated plates...1770]. The latter publication expanded upon a seminal multi-volume work edited by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), Louis XVI's director of the Jardin du Roi. This drawing relates to a print in the Nouveau recueil, volume 2 (1838), p. 204, plate 137.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Turdoide ensanglanté, male [current name: Flame-throated Bulbul. Rubigula gularis]
  • Artist: Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (Swiss, Geneva 1768–1849)
  • Date: 1821
  • Medium: Watercolor and gouache
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 19 in. × 14 1/8 in. (48.3 × 35.9 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Michael and Elyn Stubblefield, 2024
  • Object Number: 2024.587.13
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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