Lot 10
  • 10

Redouté, Pierre Joseph

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

Scilla bifolia | Scille à deux feuilles ["Alpine Squill"]



Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.; 470 x 336 mm), signed, the original painting for plate 254 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Floated, glazed and framed. Found in south and central Europe and into western Asia and the Caucasus.

Provenance

Empress Josephine of France (sale in these rooms, 20 November 1985)