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| Paintings Heade, Martin Johnson 1819 - 1904 USA, Hudson River School |
| Blue Morpho Butterfly, c.1864-1865 |
| Oil on canvas, 12.25 x 10 inches [31.115 x 25.4 cm] |
| Manoogian Collection |
| Paintings of Flowers |
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HEM005 |
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| size I: |
12x10 inches |
| price: |
200 USD |
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HEM005B |
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| size II: |
15x12 inches |
| price: |
220 USD |
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OIL PAINTING : Blue Morpho Butterfly, c.1864-1865 |
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Heade depicts a buterfly , known as The Blue Morpho butterfly (Morpho menelaus). It is a species of neotropical butterfly that has iridescent blue wings (the females are are not as brilliantly colored as the males and have a brown edge with white spots surrounding the iridescent blue area). The undersides (visible when the butterfly is resting) are brown with bronze-colored eyespots. Adults drink the juices of rotting fruit. The caterpillar of the Blue Morpho is red-brown with bright patches of lime-green on the back, and it eats the plant Erythroxylum pilchrum nocturnally (at night). Blue Morphos Blue Morpho Butterfly lives in rainforests from Brazil to Venezuela. Blue Morphos belong to the Family Nymphalidae, Genus Morpho, and species menelaus.
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