Fig; Medlar
1568
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1568
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Fig; Medlar is a 1568 watercolor by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, a Early Baroque Italian work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour is titled Fig; Medlar. It's a work by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. The painting is one of 59 watercolours of fruit and flowers that Le Moyne de Morgues created. They were likely painted between 1568 and 1572, when he fled to England. To learn more about the style and context of this work, look up the movement: Renaissance.
This watercolor depicts a fig and a medlar, part of a series of 59 botanical illustrations by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, likely created between 1568 and 1572. The work reflects the 16th-century revival of naturalistic plant study, with detailed observation of the fig suggesting the artist worked from a living specimen. Originally bound in a late 16th-century French leather volume, the album was acquired by the V&A in 1856 and later disbound for individual mounting. The series is recognized for its significance in early botanical art, though Le Moyne was initially considered a minor figure…
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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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