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Readers of this list might be interested to know that Christie's are selling a drawing of a stag beetle attributed to Hans Hofmann as lot 266 in sale 2511, Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors, 26 January 2011 in New York, Rockefeller Plaza. The description (which can be seen here http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5403570 ) is as follows: "The present drawing is a copy after a prototype by Dürer, signed with his monogram and dated 1505, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum (inv. 83.GC.214). One of the most admired and copied studies of nature, this intricate drawing of a stag beetle was also copied by Joris Hoefnagel, who included it in his Animalia Rationalia et Insecta (Ignis), plate V, in circa 1580 (Washington, National Gallery of Art, inv. 1987.20.5.6), and engraved by his son Jacob Hoefnagel. The present drawing is one of three versions known attributed to Hoffmann: the other two are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (inv. 184) and (showing the beetle in reverse), the Staatliche Museen, Berlin (inv. KdZ 2046). For further information, see F. Koreny, Albrecht Dürer und die Tier- und Pflanzenstudien der Renaissance, exhib. cat., Vienna, Albertina, 1985, nos. 36-8." There are also a number of botanical studies, including one by Johanna Helena Herolt Graff (1668-after 1702): http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?pos=9&intObjectID=5403603&sid= Julian Wilson