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Plate (assiette unie)
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About this work
French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc’s The Natural History of Birds provided models for bird painting in mid-18th-century France. Engravings in this book by François-Nicolas Marinet likely inspired the bird painted on this plate. These popular representations responded to a growing 18th-century French interest in biologically accurate representations of the natural world.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePlate (assiette unie), c. 1794. Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756), Etienne Evans (French, 1733–1806). Soft paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration; diameter: 24.5 cm (9 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1962.359
