Captivating watercolour by the French artist Antoine Germain Bevalet (1779-1850) depicting an adult male African lion in a landscape. Bevalet initially studied with his father, the French artist François Noël Bevalet (or Bevallet, active ca. 1780). He gained prominence as a nature draughtsman and illustrator with his contributions to well-known (early) 19th-century French works on natural history, such as those by the French explorers or naturalists Jules Dumont dUrville (1790-1842), Louis Isidore Duperrey (1786-1865), Jean dAudebard de Férussac (1745-1815), Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (1779-1841), Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793-1858), José Joaquin da Gama Machado (died in 1862), Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799-1874), René Primevère Lesson (1794-1849), and Auguste Nicolas Vaillant (1793-1858). As draughtsman, he participated in various scientific expeditions and made in that capacity two voyages around the world (in the period of 1817-1820 and 1822-1825).
Slightly discoloured, a few thin spots in the paper, otherwise in good condition. Bénézit, II, p. 4; Nissen, ZBI, II, pp. 166-167; Thieme/Becker, III, p. 557.