1594
gouache
vellum
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Plate 36: Red-Breasted Merganser, Shoveler, and Mallard, and Duck with Artichokes is a 1594 gouache by Joris Hoefnagel, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This picture shows four ducks swimming in a pond. Above them, a plant with big leaves and a purple flower grows. The water is blue, and the ducks have different colors—some dark, some bright green and brown. The whole scene is inside a circle with a gold border. The plant looks like an artichoke, and the artist painted it with care. The ducks are labeled as different kinds, like mergansers and mallards. Check out Hoefnagel, Joris to see how he mixed nature and art so well.
Joris Hoefnagel or Georg Hoefnagel (1542 – 24 July 1601) was a Flemish painter, printmaker, miniaturist, draftsman and merchant.
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