Blackbird by Leo Paul Robert (1851-1923)

Leo Paul Robert (1851-1923) – was the most highly regarded Swiss ornithological artist at the turn of the last century. But he only established a reputation as a landscape painter and painter of birds later in his career.

Perhaps his best known work was Les Oiseaux dans la Nature (1878-1880), a folio publication of 60 fine chromolithographic plates. These are highly sought after today.

This picture, of a Blackbird, is a fine lithographic print from the book ‘Nos Oiseaux’ by Eugène Rambert (1951).

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