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Red-billed Toucan
Also titled Roodsnaveltoekan
Aert Schouman (Dordrecht, 1710–1792)
1748
- Medium
- paper, watercolor (paint)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 482 mm x width 319 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
The Dordrecht artist Aert Schouman was no scientist, but he was deeply interested in true-to-life depictions of the bird realm. His keen powers of observation are demonstrated by the way in which this red-billed toucan grasps the branch, namely with two, rather than three toes like other species. The landscape airily painted in transparent shades of green and blue evokes the bird’s native regions in Guyana and North Brazil.
