{"id":27455,"date":"2025-04-05T21:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27455"},"modified":"2025-04-05T21:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:28:12","slug":"art-papillons-e-a-seguy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27455","title":{"rendered":"ART: Papillons, E. A. Seguy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"792\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5951-1-792x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27451\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5951-1-792x1024.jpg 792w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5951-1-232x300.jpg 232w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5951-1-768x993.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5951-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Looks fab!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned about this on an episode of <em>Flog It<\/em>, when a member of the public took their portfolio in, to be valued\/sold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The owner had very nearly sold her copy once before. Having been offered \u00a31,000 for it. This time her portfolio of prints sold, at the televised auction, for \u00a32,250!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5950-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5950-1-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5950-1-1-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole work can be viewed online, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Papillons00SeYg\/page\/n13\/mode\/1up\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately there are other more affordable modern reprints, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Seguy-Papillons-Colors-Remastered-Weekley\/dp\/1980276803\">this one<\/a>, for just \u00a312, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Decorative-Butterflies-Insects-Picture-Archives\/dp\/0486235521\">another by Dover publications<\/a>, thT can also be found via Amazon (and elsewhere), that costs a bit more, but allegedly has bigger\/better quality prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here a couple of scans of original prints:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"896\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5953-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5953-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5953-1-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5952-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27458\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5952-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5952-1-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned about this on an episode of Flog It, when a member of the public took their portfolio in, to be valued\/sold. The owner had very nearly sold her copy once before. Having been offered \u00a31,000 for it. This time her portfolio of prints sold, at the televised auction, for \u00a32,250! The whole work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ART: Papillons, E. A. Seguy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-78P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27460,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455\/revisions\/27460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}