Prêtre. Jean-Gabriel

Parrots, cockatoos, bears and big cats are among the animals in these prints by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, the Swiss-born natural-...

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Parrots, cockatoos, bears and big cats are among the animals in these prints by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, the Swiss-born natural-history painter who worked in France and lived from 1768 to 1849. He illustrated numerous zoological publications, and most of the plates here come from nineteenth-century editions of Buffon, with one bird subject linked to Prideaux John Selby. Familiar European birds appear beside tanagers and other species from distant regions, while the mammal plates group bears, mustelids, cats and hoofed animals so that related forms can be compared. The French captions keep the names used in the original publications, which do not always match modern English usage.

Parrots, cockatoos, bears and big cats are among the animals in these prints by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, the Swiss-born natural-history painter who worked in France and lived from 1768 to 1849. He illustrated numerous zoological publications, and most of the plates here come from nineteenth-century editions of Buffon, with one bird subject linked to Prideaux John Selby. Familiar European birds appear beside tanagers and other species from distant regions, while the mammal plates group bears, mustelids, cats and hoofed animals so that related forms can be compared. The French captions keep the names used in the original publications, which do not always match modern English usage.

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