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Redouté, Pierre Joseph
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
Ixia crispa | Ixia à feuilles crépues ["Reddening Ixia"]
Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (18 3/4 x 14 1/4 in.; 476 x 362 mm), not signed, the original painting for plate 433 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816); slight marginal cockling. Floated, glazed and framed. Native to the Western Cape of South Africa.
Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (18 3/4 x 14 1/4 in.; 476 x 362 mm), not signed, the original painting for plate 433 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816); slight marginal 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)