“(The Little) Owl”
“(The Little) Owl” is a beautiful watercolor painting embellished with gouache and pen on paper that dates to 1508. It was made by Albrecht Dürer, a German artist from the Northern Renaissance who lived in the late fifteenth to the early sixteenth century.
Dürer completed several watercolor portraits of animals that were scientifically accurate, and some that were not so much (see his Rhinoceros woodcut).
He made this piece during his most prolific period, after moving back to his home in Nuremberg after living and working in Venice for several years.
“(The Little) Owl” is part of the permanent collections at the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria.
For more on Albrecht Dürer, please visit his short biography here.
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