Birds
Birds have long been a source of artistic inspiration.
AUGUSTE BOUVIER (C. 1837-81)
Lesbia and the Sparrow
c.1856RCIN 933853
A watercolour, framed with an arched slip, of a young woman in greco-roman dress; seated in profile to the right with her left foot on a footstool, and her right hand holding a sparrow to her lips; an ornate birdcage is placed on a leopard skin, lower left; with a cloth backdrop slightly open upon a sunlit garden; 'A. Bouvier' inscribed lower left