Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)

Ixiolirion tataricum (Mountain Amaryllis)

Details

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)
Ixiolirion tataricum (Mountain Amaryllis)
signed 'P.J. Redouté'
black chalk, watercolor on vellum
18¾ x 13.3/8 in. (476 x 340 mm.)

Provenance

Empress Joséphine, by descent to
Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, thence by descent to the
Dukes of Leuchtenberg; Braus-Riggenbach and Hoepli, Zrich, 23 May 1935, part of lot 82.
Erhard Weyhe.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 20 November 1985, lot 241.

Engraved

In stipple engraving by the artist for Les Liliacées, Paris, 1802-1816, V, pl. 241.

Lot Essay

Ixiolirion tataricum, previously classified as Amaryllis montana, is native to Central Asia. It is first recorded in England in 1844, but, as the present sheet indicates, it must have been grown in France at the beginning of the 19th Century.

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