Autruche (Ostrich), from "Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux"
Medium
Hand-colored etching and engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 9 13/16 × 8 1/4 in. (25 × 21 cm) Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 1/16 in. (32.7 × 23 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Accession Number
2019.282.145
Tags
Birds
About the Artist
François Nicolas Martinet|Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (French|French| ) · 1731 |1700 | –1809 |1800 |
French, Paris 1731–ca. 1804|French, active 1779–97|