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Redouté, Pierre Joseph
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
Ixia radiata | Ixia radié ["Radiate Evening Flower"]
Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (19 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.; 490 x 350 mm), not signed, the original painting for plate 441 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816), with two small sketches in pencil. Floated, glazed and framed. Widely found throughout Africa.
Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (19 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.; 490 x 350 mm), not signed, the original painting for plate 441 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816), with two small sketches in pencil. Floated, glazed and framed. Widely found throughout Africa.
Provenance
Empress Josephine of France (sale in these rooms, 20 November 1985)