“Les Bison: Aquarelle originale de Ch. Aurant”; [pencil caption title on mount below image], signed by the artist in lower left corner
Place unidentified, 19th century. Original watercolor, 9 7/8 x 15 1/2 inches, mounted to a larger sheet of thicker paper taken from an 18th-century book (margins browned); in shades of blue, green, and brown, the scene centers upon four bison with others at a distance, all emerging from a forest..... More