43.Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Dendrocopos minor


  • Latin name : Dendrocopos minor (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Inventory number : Série 29 Feuillet 36 Dessin 3
  • Dates : Before February 1806
  • Full size : H. 15,1cm ; l. 12,9cm
  • Physical description : Pastel, graphite, on wove paper
  •  Inscriptions : Pl-422 (ink, at upper right) Picus minor. |Le Petit Epeiche Mâle. Buffon. (ink, at lower left)

  • Link to Harvard University collections :
    identical  duplicate
  •  : Woodpecker. Near Nantes, France, , 1806 Mar. 8

Side view of bird in a living pose, sketched graphite background. Unique example of a shaded bird (neck and body shade, overhead lighting) in the series of birds in a living pose.