Lot 6
  • 6

Redouté, Pierre Joseph

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

Allium obtusiflorum - Ail à fleurs obtuses ["Obtuse Flowered Leek"]



Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (18 3/4 x 13 3/8 in.; 476 x 340 mm), signed, the original painting for plate 118 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816), with five small sketches in pencil; some slight cockling. Floated, glazed and framed. Native to Greece and Sicily.

Provenance

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