Artist:
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Jean Gabriel Pretre Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont D'Urville (Naturalist/ Captain of the expedition) Jean Rene Constantin Quoy (Naturalist whose work print is based on) Oudet Gerard N. Rémond
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Title:
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Spondylus. S. Zonalis., from "llustrations Conchiliogiques," part of "Voyage de Decouvertes de LâAstrolabe"
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Date:
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1830-1834
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Medium:
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Color engraving
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Dimensions:
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16 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. (41.28 x 28.58 cm) (plate)
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Credit Line:
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The Minnich Collection
The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund, 1966
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Location:
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Gallery 316
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Appointed as a painter at the Menagerie of the Empress Josephine, Jean Gabriel Prètre specialized in natural history illustrations. Among his most beautiful drawings were those for the engravings in Louis-Jean-Pierre Viellotâs Histoire naturelle des plus beaux oiseaux chanteurs de la zone torride (âNatural History of the Most Beautiful Singing Birds of the Torrid Zone,â 1805-1806).
These three engravings of shells, printed in color, come from the atlases of illustrations published with the Voyage de decouvertes de lâAstrolabe (Paris) :J. Tastu,1830-1834). This encyclopedic 13-volume set reported discoveries in the Pacific Islands, during an expedition under the French navigator Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont dâUrville (1790-1840), commander of the corvette Astrolabe. As is evident from the inscriptions in this book, the zoologic binomial nomenclature invented by Linnaeus in 1758 was accepted and commonly used.
Dumont dâUrville was an indefatigable world explorer, but he is even better known for helping the French government to obtain the Venus de Milo now in the Louvre.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Rémond, N.
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Role:
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Printer
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Life Dates:
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French, active about 1817–1860
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Name:
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Oudet
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Role:
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Engraver
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Name:
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Gerard
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Role:
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Colorist
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Name:
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Dumont D'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar
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Role:
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Sponsor
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Life Dates:
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French, 1790-1842
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Name:
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Pretre, Jean Gabriel
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Life Dates:
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French, 1800-1840
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Name:
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Quoy, Jean Rene Constantin
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Role:
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Collaborator
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Life Dates:
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French, 1790-1869
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Prints
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Physical Description:
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shells; plate 7
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Creation Place:
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Europe, France, , ,
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Accession #:
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P.19,772
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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