Cob-nut
1568
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1568
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Cob-nut is a 1568 watercolor by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, a Barbizon school work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour shows a hazel branch with cob-nuts. It’s part of a set of 59 botanical drawings made by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. Le Moyne trained in France before moving to England. His work sat forgotten for centuries. Rediscovered in the 1900s, these sheets proved him a pioneer of early plant painting. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing *Cob-nut* by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, dated around 1575, depicts a hazel branch bearing cob-nuts with pale green to grey fruit, brown spotting, and a pale green involucre heightened in white and tipped with brown. The work is part of a 59-watercolor album on 34 sheets, some double-sided, with the verso of this sheet remaining blank. Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1856 due to its fine binding, the album reflects Lemoyne de Morgues' shift from obscure woodcut designs to recognition as a significant early botanical artist. The series, likely created in France,…
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Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (French pronunciation: ; c. 1533–1588) was a French artist and member of Jean Ribault's expedition to the New World. His depictions of Native American life and culture, colonial life, and…
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