Art History Animalia

#InternationalVultureAwarenessDay:

Ustād Manṣūr (India, active 1590-1624)

Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture, c. 1615–20

Mughal, Jahāngīr Studio

folio from the Shah Jahan Album

ink, opaque watercolor, & gold on paper

39.1 x 25.6 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/16 in)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 55.121.10.12 verso: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451260

For International #VultureAwarenessDay:

Bernard Willem Wierink (Dutch, 1856-1939)

Gieren (Vultures), 1919

platecut print, 40.2 h × 21.5 cm w

Rijksmuseum RP-P-1924-380

For International #VultureAwarenessDay:

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) Le Vautour (The #Vulture) plate from Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de Buffon (Histoire naturelle) 1936, published 1942, ed. of 226 Aquatint and sugar lift etching with drypoint on copper in black on off-white laid paper Image: 31.5 × 20.5 cm (12 7/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 37.2 × 28.3 cm (14 11/16 × 11 3/16 in.) The Art Institute of Chicago 1946.439.14

For International #VultureAwarenessDay:

King Vulture, 1734

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler

(German, 1706-1775)

Meissen, Germany

Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels

Art Institute of Chicago display