Six Butterflies Depicting Three Different Species, Both
Male and Female
All butterflies are inscribed underneath with pen and ink:
A, B, C


Watercolour
404 by 241 mm.


Depicted here are three different species of butterflies,
of which we see both the female and male variant.


Provenance:
Johannes le Francq van Berkhey (1729?1812), his sale,
Amsterdam, Blinkvliet/De Winter a.o., 29 March 1785
(unknown lot), which included anatomical and national
history prints, books, prints and watercolours.
This charming butterfly drawing has an illustrious provenance.
It was once in the collection of Johannes le Francq
van Berkhey, who was a doctor of medicine and natural
history at Leiden University. He is however best known
for his illustrations of natural history objects and was a
voracious collector of these objects as well. As attested
by the sale of (a part of) his collection in 1785 which contained
4470(!) lots and was subdivided in such categories
as mammals, birds, amphibians, exotic shells etc., and
even little dragons (?Draco, Draakjes? sic.)! This drawing
may have been intended as a preliminary design for an engraving
in Albertus Seba?s Thesaurus, vol. IV (the last two
of the four volumes were published after Seba?s death, in
1759 and 1765). See note in Sotheby?s Amsterdam sale,
17 November 1993, under lot 181.

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