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Watercolours LUCAND (Jean-Louis, captain) - [MYCOLOGY] 33 original watercolor plates in color of mushrooms. Plates of 25x32,5 cm, descriptive texts of each mushroom typed or handwritten in purple ink. Set in excellent condition. Louis Lucand (1821-1896), captain, mycologist and botanist, one of the founders and French picture artists of the Mycological Society of France, vice-president of the natural history society of Autun, Saône-et-Loire. Gifted for drawing and passionate about the study of phanerogams, then mushrooms, he was lucky enough to be initiated by Doctor Thévenon, a medical officer and botanist, friend of Léveillé and Cordier. He is best known, among other works, for his Figures peintes des champignons de la France, a work of the greatest rarity which was published as a sequel to Bulliard's "Champignons de la France". Out of 425 plates, 316 show species collected in Saône-et-Loire, 36 in Nièvre, 24 in Allier, 7 in Jura and 6 in Côte-d'Or. "His plates were all done by hand, drawn and then painted in watercolour. He would then cut out in a strong paper the transferred figure of the mushroom in as many partial segments as there were different colours; he would successively spread the juxtaposed colours with a brush, then complete the retouching and the accessories with a brush. This way of doing things, which is a combination of oriental painting, wash and watercolour, constituted a special process, which made Lucand's Iconography an absolutely original work, and representing an enormous amount of persevering work, since he alone executed more than 12,000 plates distributed to his subscribers.
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