Study of a Stork

Study of a Stork (1781), originally from the Impey Album, is a life size watercolor painting in Mughal style, by Shaykh Zayn al-Din, one of the three artists employed by Lady Impey. It depicts a stork eating a snail, with its measurements listed to the left of the drawing. The painting was bought by Jacqueline Kennedy in the 1970s, before being acquired by the Khosrovani-Diba collection. At Sotherby's it is known as the Kennedy Stork.