Lot 7
  • 7

Redouté, Pierre Joseph

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

Allium foliosum - Ail feuillé ["Wild Chive"]



Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (18 3/4 x 14 1/4 in.; 476 x 362 mm), signed, the original painting for plate 214 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816); slight cockling, soiled in upper left corner. Floated, glazed and framed. Native to the Circumboreal Region, the largest floristic region in the world, stretching from Eurasia to North America.

Provenance

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