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Redouté, Pierre Joseph
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
Allium sulcatum | Ail cannelé ["Naples Garlic"]
Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (18 5/8 x 13 1/2 in.; 473 x 343 mm), not signed, the original painting for plate 482 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816), with several small sketches in pencil. Floated, glazed and framed. Found throughout the Circummediterranean Region, a floristic region extending from Portugal to Israel.
Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (18 5/8 x 13 1/2 in.; 473 x 343 mm), not signed, the original painting for plate 482 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816), with several small sketches in pencil. Floated, glazed and framed. Found throughout the Circummediterranean Region, a floristic region extending from Portugal to Israel.
Provenance
Empress Josephine of France (sale in these rooms, 20 November 1985)