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Redouté, Pierre Joseph
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
Ornithogalum luteum | Ornithogalum minimum | Ornithogale jaune | Ornithogale nain ["Yellow Star of Bethlehem"]
Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (18 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.; 476 x 346 mm), signed, the original painting for plate 302 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816), with two small sketches in pencil; slight marginal cockling. Floated, glazed and framed. Distributed throughout most of Europe and Great Britain.
Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (18 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.; 476 x 346 mm), signed, the original painting for plate 302 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816), with two small sketches in pencil; slight marginal cockling. Floated, glazed and framed. Distributed throughout most of Europe and Great Britain.
Provenance
Empress Josephine of France (sale in these rooms, 20 November 1985)