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Eurasian Bullfinch
Also titled Goudvink
Barbara Regina Dietzsch (Neurenberg, 1706–1783)
1716 - 1783
- Medium
- paper, deck paint
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 292 mm x width 211 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of C.P.D. Pape
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Dietzsch used stuffed specimens as models, and often exaggerated their beauty. Here, she emphasized the liveliness of the bird, with one claw lifted, the beak slightly open, and a knowing twinkle in its eye. Her depictions were widely used to decorate natural history cabinets, where real specimens and pictorial representations were displayed together in an aesthetic arrangement.
