Marie Clémence LESSON (1800-1834). - Lot 17

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Marie Clémence LESSON (1800-1834). - Lot 17
Marie Clémence LESSON (1800-1834). Agouti des Patagons, chloromys patagonicus, le lièvre pampa, d'Azara. Watercolor and gouache highlights on paper, signed lower left, titled in pencil. H_19 cm W_25.5 cm. Marie Clémence Dumont de Sainte Croix, wife of ornithologist René Lesson, illustrated her husband's book Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches. She also worked for botanist Charles Paulus Bélanger, explorer Louis Isidore Duperrey and ornithologist Louis-Pierre Vieillot. She is erroneously identified in the sale of the Marcel Jeanson collection as "Madeleine".
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