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Stipple engraving with color by Langlois after painter and botanist Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), from Les Liliacées, published 1802-1816. Considered among jis best work, Redouté's largest and most ambitious work consisted of 486 engravings in 8 volumes and depicts all of the members of the lily family of plants including irises, tulips, orchids, amaryllis, and crocus.
Pierre-Joseph Redoute was one of the most celebrated botanical artist during the golden era of French botanical illustration, spanning the first four decades of the 19th century. Born in Belgium into two generations of artists, Redouté traveled to Paris as a young man where he met his first patron the wealthy botanist Charles Louis L’Heritier, who gave him work as an illustrator and instructed him in plant anatomy. He also became a protégé of Dutch artist Gerard van Spaendonck, a professor of flower painting at the museum of the Jardin du Roi, through which Redoute joined the museum staff and eventually succeeded Spaendonck after his death as “master of drawing.”
Introduced to court by L’Heritier, Redoute became the official court artist of Queen Marie Antoinette. He survived through the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror to attract another important patron, the Empress Josephine Bonaparte, who commissioned an extensive series of paintings after the ornamental flowers in her lavish gardens at Malmaison.
Later in life he became master of design for the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. Although particularly renowned for his botanical exploration of roses and lilies, he turned to choosing to paint flowers purely for aesthetic value rather than scientifically documenting a full range of a species. This included those images depicted in the celebrated Choix des plus belles Fleurs. Over his long career, Redouté collaborated with the greatest botanists of his day and participated in nearly fifty publications, contributed over 2,100 published plates depicting over 1,800 different species, many never rendered before.
Redouté's gained recognition not only for his precise renderings of plants, but even more so for his work in stipple engraving and his innovation with the application of colors in the printing process. His renown is due to the remarkable quality of the prints made after his paintings, which brought his works to a wider audience during his lifetime and thereafter. Redouté’s refined technique capture the subtle delicacy of flower petals and foliage, most evident in his three great works, Les Liliacees (1802-1816), Les Roses (1817-1824), and lastly, Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs.
- Creator:Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759 - 1840)
- Dimensions:Height: 21 in (53.34 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)
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- Framing:Framing Options Available
- Condition:Water damaged wtih large stain, left bottom section and top edge. Tape residue along top edge. Horizontal crease across bottom width of page. Uneven right borders with some small tears along edges.
- Gallery Location:Mount Vernon, NY
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