Count Giorgio Durante (Duranti). Bird, Perhaps an Egret, Seen in Profile with One Wing Lifted, 1685–1755. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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Bird, Perhaps an Egret, Seen in Profile with One Wing Lifted

by Count Giorgio Durante (Duranti)

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Artist: Count Giorgio Durante (Duranti) (Italian, Palazzolo (?) 1685–1755 Palazzolo)
Date: 1685–1755
Medium: Watercolor over graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 7 3/16 x 5 5/16 in. (18.3 x 13.5 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession no.: 80.3.208

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Bird, Perhaps an Egret, Seen in Profile with One Wing Lifted

Quick Overview

Provenance

More by Count Giorgio Durante (Duranti) in museum collections

A Dead Bird (Quail?) Seen from Below

Long-Tailed Bird Seen in Profile

Dead Duck

Two Dead Birds (A Quail and a Long-Beaked Bird)