Robert, Nicholas - Leaf from a Flower Album - watercolour - art postcard

Art Postcard

 

• Work of art title:  Leaf from a Flower Album
• Artist (if known): Nicholas Robert (1614-1685)
• Media or other details:  waterwolour
• Publisher / Gallery: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): Devon to Birmingham, 1999
• Size: modern
• Notes & condition details:

NOTES:

Size: 'Modern' is usually around 6in x 4in / 'Old Standard' is usually around 5 1/2in x 3 1/2in. Larger sizes mentioned, but if you need to know the exact size please ask.

All postcards are not totally new and are pre-owned. It's inevitable that older cards may show signs of ageing and use, particularly sent through the post. Any faults other than normal ageing are noted.

Stock No.: A345

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Nicolas Robert (18 April 1614 � 25 March 1685) was a French miniaturist and engraver. He was born in Langres and died in Paris.

In 1664 he was appointed as ""peintre ordinaire de Sa Majest� pur la miniature"" (Painter of Miniatures) to Louis XIV.

Blunt highlights Robert's main works as follows:

• Illustrations within the book - Guirlande de Julie - which was produced by Nicholas Jarry as a gift for Julie Lucine d'Angennes from her future husband the Duke of Montausier. It was this work that made Robert famous and drew the attention of Gaston, Duke of Orl�ans.
• Paintings of flowers on vellum for Gaston and latterly for Louis XIV that form the nucleus of the Recueil des v�lins currently held in the Mus�um national d'histoire naturelle within the Jardin des Plantes.
• Contributions to the Recueil des Plantes - a collection of engravings of flowers. Prints from these were published in the two-volume work - Estampes de Plantes and in M�moires pour servir � l'Histoire des Plantes

Other works include:

• Fiori Diversi - a small book of etchings of flowers published in Rome on 1640.
• Diverses Fleurs c 1660
• Sketchbooks A & B, in the Austrian National Library, detailed in H.Walter Lack's Garden of Eden (Taschen: 2008)
• Livre des Tulipes, in the Austrian National Library, detailed in H.Walter Lack's Garden of Eden (Taschen: 2008)

type=printed postcards

theme=artists signed

sub-theme=art

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted