Eurasian Bullfinch, Barbara Regina Dietzsch, 1716 - 1783

brush, h 292mm × w 211mm More details

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.