Lot 18
  • 18

Redouté, Pierre Joseph

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

Medeola angustifolia | Medéola à feuilles étroites ["Scrambling Lily"]



Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (18 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.; 476 x 350 mm), signed, the original painting for plate 393 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816); slight cockling. Floated, glazed and framed. Native to the Western Cape of South Africa.

Provenance

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