Ooievaar met babies voor een huisdeur by Edouard Taurel

Ooievaar met babies voor een huisdeur 1846 - 1879

pencil drawn

photo of handprinted image

light pencil work

yellowing background

white dominant colour

pencil sketch

old engraving style

incomplete sketchy

pencil work

tonal art

"Ooievaar met babies voor een huisdeur" (Stork with babies in front of a house door), a black and white lithograph, depicts a stork standing on a stoop holding two baskets of babies. It is one of many works by Edouard Taurel, a 19th-century artist known for his charming depictions of everyday life. This piece, dating from between 1846 and 1879, is a popular example of the folk tradition of storks delivering babies. The image is currently part of the Rijksmuseum collection in Amsterdam.