Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)

Study of Sisyrinchium convolutum, with subsidiary Studies of the Flower, Pistil and Seed

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Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)
Study of Sisyrinchium convolutum, with subsidiary Studies of the Flower, Pistil and Seed
signed 'P.J. Redouté', the subsidiary studies numbered 1 to 4
black lead, bodycolour on vellum
468 x 343 mm.

来源

Empress Joséphine, by descent to
Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, then by descent; Zurich, 23 May 1935, part of lot 82.
Erhard Weyhe.
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20 November 1985, part of lot 47, illustrated.

拍品专文

This was part of album called Les Liliacées bought by Empress Josephine, wife of Emperor Napoleon I, directly from the artist. The volumes where inherited in 1814 by her son Prince Eugène de Beauharnais who brought them to Germany after the fall of the Emperor. They stayed in the family till 1935.
Redouté had worked for Joséphine from 1798 and was responsible for recording her plant collection. Les Liliacées was one of Redouté's most important works and was published, under the patronage of Empress Joséphine, by the artist.