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PIERRE JOSEPH REDOUT (1759-1840)
Choix des belles fleurs prises dans diffrentes familles du rgne vgtal et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits. Text by D.-M. Guillemin. Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1827-[33]. 2 (331 x 246mm). Title-page, advertisement, and 9 leaves of text, 144 fine stipple-engraved plates before numbers, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Langlois, Bessin, Chapuy, and Victor, after Redout. (Some light browning and spotting to a few plates.) Contemporary dark maroon morocco-backed marbled-paper boards, spine in five compartments, gilt in four and lettered in one (extremities lightly rubbed).
THE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREATEST FLOWER BOOKS BY ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED OF FLOWER PAINTERS. The Choix was the last of three major works published by Redout. It was issued in 36 fascicules between May 1827 and June 1833, in both quarto and folio format, the latter being the so-called grand papier version. The Hunt Redoutana catalogue notes that the folio issue was restricted to a small number of copies only. The work was divided into four sections, Fruits, Roses, Bouquets, and Fleurs, with sixteen, sixteen, nine, and 103 plates respectively. The later editions had section titles, but the first edition has none, and the plates are not presented in any particular order.
Pierre-Joseph Redout is the most celebrated and popular of all flower painters and his work is the culmination of a tradition of botanical illustration produced under royal patronage which dates back to the Renaissance. He produced more than 500 paintings on vellum specifically for the Vlins du Roi, as well as many others, both independent works and paintings made for one of his three great publications: Les Liliaces, an 8-volume publication produced between 1802 and 1816, Les Roses, his most famous work, published in 3 volumes between 1817 and 1824, and the present work, Choix des plus belles Fleurs. Redout studied and worked with one of the greatest flower painters of his generation, Gerard van Spandonck, Royal Botanical Draughtsman and Professor of Painting at the Jardins du Roi (now the Jardins des Plantes). Redout had also spent time in Amsterdam where he saw the work of the celebrated botanical artist, Jan van Huysum, an artist particularly noted for his portrayal of double roses and peonies. The flower, fruits, and bouquets depicted in the Choix are characteristic of Redout at his most assured, combining the best of his artistic background and his skill as an observer of nature: 'clair par l'exprience, encourag par les suffrages les plus flatteurs des naturalistes et des peintres de mon pays et des contres les plus loignes; c'est en me livrant aux travaux botaniques les plus ntendus, c'est en tudiant sans cesse la nature dans la constance et dans la varit de ses formes et ses coleurs, que je crois tre parvenu russir sous le triple rapport de l'exactitude, de la composition et du coloris, dont la runion peut seule porter la perfection l'iconographie vgetale' (Redout writing in the preface to the present work).
Redout was closely linked to the Panckoucke publishing family through one of his most gifted pupils, Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke, who had married C.L.F. Panckoucke, the third son of the publisher of Diderot and d'Alembert's famous Encyclopdie. The noted French botanist D.-M. Guillamain wrote the Le Alphabtique et Explicative des plantes, and the combination of a rigorous alphabetical listing of species, Panckoucke's printing, and Redout's extraordinarily fine plates, resulted in a publishing and botanical sensation. There were two further editions and some of the plates were separately issued in a portfolio. Hunt Redoutana 21; Nissen BBI 1591; Pritzel 7456; Dunthorne 235; Stafleu & Cowan 8750; Sitwell Great Flower Books 1700-1900, p. 129. 1700-1900, p. 129.
Choix des belles fleurs prises dans diffrentes familles du rgne vgtal et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits. Text by D.-M. Guillemin. Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1827-[33]. 2 (331 x 246mm). Title-page, advertisement, and 9 leaves of text, 144 fine stipple-engraved plates before numbers, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Langlois, Bessin, Chapuy, and Victor, after Redout. (Some light browning and spotting to a few plates.) Contemporary dark maroon morocco-backed marbled-paper boards, spine in five compartments, gilt in four and lettered in one (extremities lightly rubbed).
THE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREATEST FLOWER BOOKS BY ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED OF FLOWER PAINTERS. The Choix was the last of three major works published by Redout. It was issued in 36 fascicules between May 1827 and June 1833, in both quarto and folio format, the latter being the so-called grand papier version. The Hunt Redoutana catalogue notes that the folio issue was restricted to a small number of copies only. The work was divided into four sections, Fruits, Roses, Bouquets, and Fleurs, with sixteen, sixteen, nine, and 103 plates respectively. The later editions had section titles, but the first edition has none, and the plates are not presented in any particular order.
Pierre-Joseph Redout is the most celebrated and popular of all flower painters and his work is the culmination of a tradition of botanical illustration produced under royal patronage which dates back to the Renaissance. He produced more than 500 paintings on vellum specifically for the Vlins du Roi, as well as many others, both independent works and paintings made for one of his three great publications: Les Liliaces, an 8-volume publication produced between 1802 and 1816, Les Roses, his most famous work, published in 3 volumes between 1817 and 1824, and the present work, Choix des plus belles Fleurs. Redout studied and worked with one of the greatest flower painters of his generation, Gerard van Spandonck, Royal Botanical Draughtsman and Professor of Painting at the Jardins du Roi (now the Jardins des Plantes). Redout had also spent time in Amsterdam where he saw the work of the celebrated botanical artist, Jan van Huysum, an artist particularly noted for his portrayal of double roses and peonies. The flower, fruits, and bouquets depicted in the Choix are characteristic of Redout at his most assured, combining the best of his artistic background and his skill as an observer of nature: 'clair par l'exprience, encourag par les suffrages les plus flatteurs des naturalistes et des peintres de mon pays et des contres les plus loignes; c'est en me livrant aux travaux botaniques les plus ntendus, c'est en tudiant sans cesse la nature dans la constance et dans la varit de ses formes et ses coleurs, que je crois tre parvenu russir sous le triple rapport de l'exactitude, de la composition et du coloris, dont la runion peut seule porter la perfection l'iconographie vgetale' (Redout writing in the preface to the present work).
Redout was closely linked to the Panckoucke publishing family through one of his most gifted pupils, Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke, who had married C.L.F. Panckoucke, the third son of the publisher of Diderot and d'Alembert's famous Encyclopdie. The noted French botanist D.-M. Guillamain wrote the Le Alphabtique et Explicative des plantes, and the combination of a rigorous alphabetical listing of species, Panckoucke's printing, and Redout's extraordinarily fine plates, resulted in a publishing and botanical sensation. There were two further editions and some of the plates were separately issued in a portfolio. Hunt Redoutana 21; Nissen BBI 1591; Pritzel 7456; Dunthorne 235; Stafleu & Cowan 8750; Sitwell Great Flower Books 1700-1900, p. 129. 1700-1900, p. 129.
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