Portrait of Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)
Renowned Botanical Artist
Renowned Botanical Artist
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Maurai[lt]e or Maurai[ss]e (after) C. Motte (lithographer) P.J. Redouté Paris: 1828 Lithograph 8 x 5.5 inches Not for sale |
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Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) is considered the greatest botanical artist of the golden era of botanical illustration. His greatest works are Les Roses, Les Liliacées, and Choix Des Plus Belles Fleurs. Redouté recorded many of the beautiful ornamental garden flowers of Napoleon's wife, the Empress Josephine, as artist-in-residence at the Malmaison gardens. The greatest engravers of the period were engaged to create stipple engraved prints based on Redouté's original watercolors on vellum. In this process, the flower was etched with a series of small dots. For each print the plate was colored and then printed. The resulting prints are among the best botanicals produced of a quality and appearance similar to the original Redouté watercolors on vellum on which they are based.
Condition: Generally very good, the paper with the usual light overall toning, some minor foxing, light scattered wear. |