Édouard Traviès de Villers (24 March 1809 – 18 November 1876) was a French

watercolourist Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

, lithographer and illustrator. He regularly exhibited works at the

Paris Salon The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

between 1831 and 1866 and was primarily known for his paintings of natural history subjects, especially birds. His greatest work was ''Les oiseaux les plus remarquables par leurs formes et leurs couleurs'' (The most remarkable birds for their form and colour). Simultaneously published in London and Paris in 1857, ''Les oiseaux'' contains 79 hand-colored lithographic plates made from Traviès's original paintings. His elder brother was the painter and caricaturist Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers.Bellier de La Chavignerie, Émile and Auvray, Louis (1885)
''Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours''
Vol. 2, p. 588. Librairie Renouard

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French bird artists French illustrators 1809 births 1876 deaths {{France-artist-stub