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Circle of Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822)
An album of original watercolour and bodycolour flower drawings on silk, [France: c. 1790]. 2° (310 x 220mm). 26 FINE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND BODYCOLOUR DRAWINGS ON IVORY-COLOURED SILK, some heightened in white, the majority with integral manuscript titles, each drawing between guard leaves of blank paper. Early 19th-century light brown calf gilt by Jean-Claude Bozerian, covers with border composed from a neo-classical roll and a roll of stylised flowers and foliage, the flat spine divided into six compartments by bands composed from four fillets and three roll-tools, green morocco label in the second compartment, later matching overlay to label lettered in gilt 'P.-J. Redouté', the other compartments with matching decoration in gilt of a single large rose spray tool, lettered in gilt at foot of sixth compartment 'rel. p. Bozerian', gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, 20th-century black straight-grained morocco solander box, tooled in gilt and inlaid in imitation of Bozerian, 'covers' with wide decorative border of four gilt fillets enclosing an onlaid strip of red morocco tooled in gilt with fillet edges and stylised flower and foliage tool, the strip interrupted at the centre of each length by a large onlaid red morocco lozenge, outlined in gilt with a centrally-placed gilt flower-spray, 'spine' in six compartments with double-raised bands, the red-morocco onlaid strip between each pair of bands tooled in gilt with roll-tool, the second compartment with red morocco lettering-piece, the others with repeat pattern of a number of small tools centred around an onlaid red morocco roundel, the box lined in dark olive suede leather. Provenance: Jules Émile Planchon (1823-1888, bookplate).
A FINE AND VERY RARE COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS ON SILK, INCLUDING 13 OF TULIPS, BOUND INTO AN ALBUM BY BOZERIAN, ONE OF THE GREAT BINDERS OF THE PERIOD, AND WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE.S ALTHOUGH THE ARTIST OF THIS ALBUM HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED, HE (OR VERY POSSIBLY SHE) IS ALMOST CERTAIN TO BE FOUND AMONG THE PUPILS OF THE GREAT BOTANICAL ARTIST, GERARD VAN SPAENDONCK. BORN IN THE NETHERLANDS IN 1746, VAN SPAENDONCK MOVED TO PARIS IN 1774 AND WAS APPOINTED 'PEINTRE DU ROI'. HIS FIRST EXHIBITION AT THE SALON OF 1777 BROUGHT HIM FURTHER ACCOLADES AND ATTENTION FROM THE HIGHEST PATRONS, AND IN 1780 HE SUCCEEDED MADELEINE BASSEPORTE AS PROFESSEUR DE PEINTURE DE FLEURS AT THE JARDIN DES PLANTES. HIS MOST IMPORTANT BODY OF WORK WAS THE DRAWINGS EXECUTED FOR THE SERIES OF VéLINS, BUT PERHAPS HIS MOST LASTING INFLUENCE WAS AS A TEACHER. HE ATTRACTED THE MOST GIFTED ARTISTS AS HIS STUDENTS, BOTH PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR, AND THE ARTIST OF THE PRESENT ALBUM EASILY TAKES HIS PLACE AMONG THEM.
TWO OF VAN SPAENDONCK'S BEST KNOWN PUPILS ARE PIERRE-JOSEPH REDOUTé (1759-1840) AND JAN FRANS VAN DAEL (1764-1840), BUT HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN GIVING DIRECTION TO THE CAREERS OF A NUMBER OF OTHER IMPORTANT FLOWER PAINTERS NOT LEAST OF WHOM WAS HIS YOUNGER BROTHER CORNELIS VAN SPAENDONCK (1756-1840). CORNELIS, LIKE HIS BROTHER, PAINTED OILS, GOUACHE AND WATERCOLOUR AS WELL AS PROVIDING DESIGNS FOR THE SèVRES PORCELAIN FACTORY. OTHER NOTABLE PUPILS (THE MAJORITY OF WHOM WERE WOMEN) INCLUDE THéRèSE-ANTOINETTE BAUDRY DE BALZAC (1774-1831); JAKOB BER (1786-1863, BORN MOïSE JACOBBER, PAINTED FLOWERS AND FRUIT ON PORCELAIN, OILS AND WATERCOLOUR); PANCRACE BESSA (1772-1846); ÉMILE-THéOPHILE BLANCHARD (B. 1795, A BOTANICAL DESIGNER AND FLOWER PAINTER); AUGUSTE PIQUET DE BRIENNE (B. 1789); MéLANIE DE COMOLéRA, ANTOINE CHAZAL (1793-1854); MARQUISE DE GROLLIER (1742-1828, WHOSE PAINTINGS INCLUDE EXAMPLES EXECUTED IN OILS ON MARBLE); ANNE-ERNESTINE PANCKOUCKE (1784-1860); MADAME PEIGNE (NéE JOUANON, WHO WORKED AS A DESIGNER AT THE OBERKAMPF TEXTILE FACTORY FROM ABOUT 1790-1815); AND ADèLE RICHé (1791-1878).
THE LUXURY WHICH TYPIFIES THE PRESENT ALBUM POINTS TO AN ARTIST OF THE HIGHEST SOCIETY. HIS (OR VERY POSSIBLY HER) CHOICE OF MEDIUM -- SILK -- WAS HIGHLY UNUSUAL. WESTERN FLOWER PAINTINGS ON SILK ARE ALMOST UNKNOWN, BUT THE USE OF SILK POINTS TO THE CONTEMPORARY FASHION FOR CHINOISERIE AND THE FASCINATION WITH RECENTLY PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS OF THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S GARDENS. CHINOISERIE CAME INTO FASHION INDOORS AS WELL, AND IMPORTED ORIENTAL PAINTINGS ON SILK MIGHT HAVE PROMPTED THE ARTIST'S CHOICE OF A SILKEN GROUND FOR HIS ELEGANT DRAWINGS. IN ADDITION, THE ALBUM IS BOUND BY ONE OF THE GREAT PARISIAN SOCIETY BINDERS OF THE PERIOD IN A TASTEFULLY RESTRAINED STYLE. REDOUTé USED BOZERIAN TO BIND PRESENTATION COPIES OF HIS OWN WORKS TO HIS GREAT PATRON, THE DUCHESSE DE BERRY.
THE ALBUM WAS FORMERLY OWNED BY JULES ÉMILE PLANCHON, NOW BEST KNOWN FOR THE ACTIVE PART HE TOOK IN IDENTIFYING PHYLLOXERA AMONGST THE VINES OF FRANCE. HE WAS LATER INSTRUMENTAL IN ADVISING REMEDIES TO STAY THE PLAGUE, AND IN INTRODUCING THE [RESISTANT] AMERICAN VARIETIES OF VINES FOR STOCK. PLANCHON WAS BORN AT GANGES, HERAULT, [FRANCE], ON MARCH 23, 1823. AT THE AGE OF 21, HE PRODUCED HIS [DOCTORAL] THESIS [AT MONTPELLIER]... AND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS [IN 1844], ON THE STRONG RECOMMENDATION OF AUGUSTE ST.-HILAIRE, HE WAS ENGAGED BY SIR WILLIAM HOOKER TO TAKE CHARGE OF HIS SPLENDID HERBARIUM, THEN RECENTLY REMOVED FROM GLASGOW TO A HOUSE BETWEEN MORTLAKE AND KEW.' (PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 1887-1888 PP. 95-96). HE REMAINED IN ENGLAND UNTIL 1848. FROM 1849-1851 HE WAS PROFESSOR OF BOTANY AT THE HORTICULTURAL INSTITUTE IN GHENT AND WORKED WITH VAN HOUTTE ON THE FLORE DES SERRES PERIODICAL, AND FROM 1851 TO 1853 HE WAS AT THE ÉCOLE DE PHARMACIE IN NANCY. HE THEN RETURNED TO MONTPELLIER, WHERE HE REMAINED FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE, PUBLISHING NUMEROUS PAPERS AND FULFILLING VARIOUS ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS, CULMINATING WITH HIS APPOINTMENT AS DIRECTOR OF THE BOTANICAL GARDEN IN 1881, A POSITION HE HELD UNTIL HIS DEATH ON 1 APRIL 1888. BETWEEN 1844 AND 1855 PLANCHON ALSO CONTRIBUTED A NUMBER OF PAPERS TO THE ANNALES DES SCIENCES NATURELLES.
THE SUBJECTS OF THE DRAWINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
1. ALTHEA OFFICINALIS 'ALTHéA' [MARSHMALLOW]
2. CALENDULA OFFICINALIS [MARIGOLD]
3. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'FLORE' [RED AND YELLOW TULIP]
4. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'GAMELIA' [RED, YELLOW AND PURPLE TULIP]
5. TULIPA CULTIVAR [RED, YELLOW AND PURPLE TULIP WITH STYLISED WASP]
6. DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS 'OEUILLETS' [TWO CARNATION SPRAYS]
7. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LA GRANDE SERINE' [RED AND YELLOW TULIP]
8. CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS 'PERVANCHE' [PINK PERIWINKLE]
9. PRIMULA AURICULA 'OREILLE D'OURS, DITTE CULOTTE DE VELOURS' [RED AND YELLOW AURICULA]
10. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'L'HARMONIE' [YELLOW, RED AND PURPLE TULIP]
11. DATURA STRAMONIUM 'POMME EPINEUSE' [THORN APPLE]
12. CHICORIUM INTYBUS 'CHICORéE SAUVAGE' [CHICORY]
13. TAGETES ERECTA [TWO FRENCH MARIGOLD SPRAYS]
14. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LA SéRINE' [YELLOW AND RED TULIP]
15. IMPATIENS BALSAMINA 'BELJAMINE' [RED AND WHITE FLOWERED GARDEN BALSAM]
16. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LE MONT VESUVE' [ORANGE AND RED TULIP]
17. TULIPA CULTIVAR [PURPLE AND WHITE TULIP]
18. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'L'AGATHE' [PURPLE AND YELLOW TULIP]
19. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LA SULTANE' [PURPLE, RED AND YELLOW TULIP WITH STYLISED FLY/WASP]
20. NYCTANTHES ARBORTRISTIS 'JASMIN DES INDES' [NIGHT-JASMINE OF INDIA]
21. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LA NETTE JONG.E' [BLUE/PURPLE AND YELLOW TULIP]
22. TROPACOLUM MAJUS 'CAPUCINE' [ORANGE NASTURSIUMS]
23. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LA BRIGITTE' [BLUE, WHITE AND PURPLE TULIP]
24. COLLISTEPHUS CHINENSIS [THREE SPRAYS OF ASTERS, PURPLE, RED OR WHITE/PINK]
25. MATHIOLA INCANA [RED STOCK]
26. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LA BRIGITTE R.E' [PURPLE, RED, YELLOW AND WHITE TULIP WITH STYLISED CRICKET]
CHRISTIE'S IS GRATEFUL TO DR. SANDRA RAPHAEL FOR HER ASSISTANCE IN THE CATALOGUING OF THIS ALBUM.
An album of original watercolour and bodycolour flower drawings on silk, [France: c. 1790]. 2° (310 x 220mm). 26 FINE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND BODYCOLOUR DRAWINGS ON IVORY-COLOURED SILK, some heightened in white, the majority with integral manuscript titles, each drawing between guard leaves of blank paper. Early 19th-century light brown calf gilt by Jean-Claude Bozerian, covers with border composed from a neo-classical roll and a roll of stylised flowers and foliage, the flat spine divided into six compartments by bands composed from four fillets and three roll-tools, green morocco label in the second compartment, later matching overlay to label lettered in gilt 'P.-J. Redouté', the other compartments with matching decoration in gilt of a single large rose spray tool, lettered in gilt at foot of sixth compartment 'rel. p. Bozerian', gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, 20th-century black straight-grained morocco solander box, tooled in gilt and inlaid in imitation of Bozerian, 'covers' with wide decorative border of four gilt fillets enclosing an onlaid strip of red morocco tooled in gilt with fillet edges and stylised flower and foliage tool, the strip interrupted at the centre of each length by a large onlaid red morocco lozenge, outlined in gilt with a centrally-placed gilt flower-spray, 'spine' in six compartments with double-raised bands, the red-morocco onlaid strip between each pair of bands tooled in gilt with roll-tool, the second compartment with red morocco lettering-piece, the others with repeat pattern of a number of small tools centred around an onlaid red morocco roundel, the box lined in dark olive suede leather. Provenance: Jules Émile Planchon (1823-1888, bookplate).
A FINE AND VERY RARE COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS ON SILK, INCLUDING 13 OF TULIPS, BOUND INTO AN ALBUM BY BOZERIAN, ONE OF THE GREAT BINDERS OF THE PERIOD, AND WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE.S ALTHOUGH THE ARTIST OF THIS ALBUM HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED, HE (OR VERY POSSIBLY SHE) IS ALMOST CERTAIN TO BE FOUND AMONG THE PUPILS OF THE GREAT BOTANICAL ARTIST, GERARD VAN SPAENDONCK. BORN IN THE NETHERLANDS IN 1746, VAN SPAENDONCK MOVED TO PARIS IN 1774 AND WAS APPOINTED 'PEINTRE DU ROI'. HIS FIRST EXHIBITION AT THE SALON OF 1777 BROUGHT HIM FURTHER ACCOLADES AND ATTENTION FROM THE HIGHEST PATRONS, AND IN 1780 HE SUCCEEDED MADELEINE BASSEPORTE AS PROFESSEUR DE PEINTURE DE FLEURS AT THE JARDIN DES PLANTES. HIS MOST IMPORTANT BODY OF WORK WAS THE DRAWINGS EXECUTED FOR THE SERIES OF VéLINS, BUT PERHAPS HIS MOST LASTING INFLUENCE WAS AS A TEACHER. HE ATTRACTED THE MOST GIFTED ARTISTS AS HIS STUDENTS, BOTH PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR, AND THE ARTIST OF THE PRESENT ALBUM EASILY TAKES HIS PLACE AMONG THEM.
TWO OF VAN SPAENDONCK'S BEST KNOWN PUPILS ARE PIERRE-JOSEPH REDOUTé (1759-1840) AND JAN FRANS VAN DAEL (1764-1840), BUT HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN GIVING DIRECTION TO THE CAREERS OF A NUMBER OF OTHER IMPORTANT FLOWER PAINTERS NOT LEAST OF WHOM WAS HIS YOUNGER BROTHER CORNELIS VAN SPAENDONCK (1756-1840). CORNELIS, LIKE HIS BROTHER, PAINTED OILS, GOUACHE AND WATERCOLOUR AS WELL AS PROVIDING DESIGNS FOR THE SèVRES PORCELAIN FACTORY. OTHER NOTABLE PUPILS (THE MAJORITY OF WHOM WERE WOMEN) INCLUDE THéRèSE-ANTOINETTE BAUDRY DE BALZAC (1774-1831); JAKOB BER (1786-1863, BORN MOïSE JACOBBER, PAINTED FLOWERS AND FRUIT ON PORCELAIN, OILS AND WATERCOLOUR); PANCRACE BESSA (1772-1846); ÉMILE-THéOPHILE BLANCHARD (B. 1795, A BOTANICAL DESIGNER AND FLOWER PAINTER); AUGUSTE PIQUET DE BRIENNE (B. 1789); MéLANIE DE COMOLéRA, ANTOINE CHAZAL (1793-1854); MARQUISE DE GROLLIER (1742-1828, WHOSE PAINTINGS INCLUDE EXAMPLES EXECUTED IN OILS ON MARBLE); ANNE-ERNESTINE PANCKOUCKE (1784-1860); MADAME PEIGNE (NéE JOUANON, WHO WORKED AS A DESIGNER AT THE OBERKAMPF TEXTILE FACTORY FROM ABOUT 1790-1815); AND ADèLE RICHé (1791-1878).
THE LUXURY WHICH TYPIFIES THE PRESENT ALBUM POINTS TO AN ARTIST OF THE HIGHEST SOCIETY. HIS (OR VERY POSSIBLY HER) CHOICE OF MEDIUM -- SILK -- WAS HIGHLY UNUSUAL. WESTERN FLOWER PAINTINGS ON SILK ARE ALMOST UNKNOWN, BUT THE USE OF SILK POINTS TO THE CONTEMPORARY FASHION FOR CHINOISERIE AND THE FASCINATION WITH RECENTLY PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS OF THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S GARDENS. CHINOISERIE CAME INTO FASHION INDOORS AS WELL, AND IMPORTED ORIENTAL PAINTINGS ON SILK MIGHT HAVE PROMPTED THE ARTIST'S CHOICE OF A SILKEN GROUND FOR HIS ELEGANT DRAWINGS. IN ADDITION, THE ALBUM IS BOUND BY ONE OF THE GREAT PARISIAN SOCIETY BINDERS OF THE PERIOD IN A TASTEFULLY RESTRAINED STYLE. REDOUTé USED BOZERIAN TO BIND PRESENTATION COPIES OF HIS OWN WORKS TO HIS GREAT PATRON, THE DUCHESSE DE BERRY.
THE ALBUM WAS FORMERLY OWNED BY JULES ÉMILE PLANCHON, NOW BEST KNOWN FOR THE ACTIVE PART HE TOOK IN IDENTIFYING PHYLLOXERA AMONGST THE VINES OF FRANCE. HE WAS LATER INSTRUMENTAL IN ADVISING REMEDIES TO STAY THE PLAGUE, AND IN INTRODUCING THE [RESISTANT] AMERICAN VARIETIES OF VINES FOR STOCK. PLANCHON WAS BORN AT GANGES, HERAULT, [FRANCE], ON MARCH 23, 1823. AT THE AGE OF 21, HE PRODUCED HIS [DOCTORAL] THESIS [AT MONTPELLIER]... AND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS [IN 1844], ON THE STRONG RECOMMENDATION OF AUGUSTE ST.-HILAIRE, HE WAS ENGAGED BY SIR WILLIAM HOOKER TO TAKE CHARGE OF HIS SPLENDID HERBARIUM, THEN RECENTLY REMOVED FROM GLASGOW TO A HOUSE BETWEEN MORTLAKE AND KEW.' (PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 1887-1888 PP. 95-96). HE REMAINED IN ENGLAND UNTIL 1848. FROM 1849-1851 HE WAS PROFESSOR OF BOTANY AT THE HORTICULTURAL INSTITUTE IN GHENT AND WORKED WITH VAN HOUTTE ON THE FLORE DES SERRES PERIODICAL, AND FROM 1851 TO 1853 HE WAS AT THE ÉCOLE DE PHARMACIE IN NANCY. HE THEN RETURNED TO MONTPELLIER, WHERE HE REMAINED FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE, PUBLISHING NUMEROUS PAPERS AND FULFILLING VARIOUS ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS, CULMINATING WITH HIS APPOINTMENT AS DIRECTOR OF THE BOTANICAL GARDEN IN 1881, A POSITION HE HELD UNTIL HIS DEATH ON 1 APRIL 1888. BETWEEN 1844 AND 1855 PLANCHON ALSO CONTRIBUTED A NUMBER OF PAPERS TO THE ANNALES DES SCIENCES NATURELLES.
THE SUBJECTS OF THE DRAWINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
1. ALTHEA OFFICINALIS 'ALTHéA' [MARSHMALLOW]
2. CALENDULA OFFICINALIS [MARIGOLD]
3. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'FLORE' [RED AND YELLOW TULIP]
4. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'GAMELIA' [RED, YELLOW AND PURPLE TULIP]
5. TULIPA CULTIVAR [RED, YELLOW AND PURPLE TULIP WITH STYLISED WASP]
6. DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS 'OEUILLETS' [TWO CARNATION SPRAYS]
7. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LA GRANDE SERINE' [RED AND YELLOW TULIP]
8. CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS 'PERVANCHE' [PINK PERIWINKLE]
9. PRIMULA AURICULA 'OREILLE D'OURS, DITTE CULOTTE DE VELOURS' [RED AND YELLOW AURICULA]
10. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'L'HARMONIE' [YELLOW, RED AND PURPLE TULIP]
11. DATURA STRAMONIUM 'POMME EPINEUSE' [THORN APPLE]
12. CHICORIUM INTYBUS 'CHICORéE SAUVAGE' [CHICORY]
13. TAGETES ERECTA [TWO FRENCH MARIGOLD SPRAYS]
14. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LA SéRINE' [YELLOW AND RED TULIP]
15. IMPATIENS BALSAMINA 'BELJAMINE' [RED AND WHITE FLOWERED GARDEN BALSAM]
16. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LE MONT VESUVE' [ORANGE AND RED TULIP]
17. TULIPA CULTIVAR [PURPLE AND WHITE TULIP]
18. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'L'AGATHE' [PURPLE AND YELLOW TULIP]
19. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LA SULTANE' [PURPLE, RED AND YELLOW TULIP WITH STYLISED FLY/WASP]
20. NYCTANTHES ARBORTRISTIS 'JASMIN DES INDES' [NIGHT-JASMINE OF INDIA]
21. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LA NETTE JONG.
22. TROPACOLUM MAJUS 'CAPUCINE' [ORANGE NASTURSIUMS]
23. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LA BRIGITTE' [BLUE, WHITE AND PURPLE TULIP]
24. COLLISTEPHUS CHINENSIS [THREE SPRAYS OF ASTERS, PURPLE, RED OR WHITE/PINK]
25. MATHIOLA INCANA [RED STOCK]
26. TULIPA CULTIVAR 'LA BRIGITTE R.
CHRISTIE'S IS GRATEFUL TO DR. SANDRA RAPHAEL FOR HER ASSISTANCE IN THE CATALOGUING OF THIS ALBUM.
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