Lot 8
  • 8

Redouté, Pierre Joseph

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

Ornithogalum fistulosum | Ornithogale fistuleux ["Star of Bethlehem"]



Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (18 3/4 x 13 3/8 in.; 476 x 340 mm), signed, the original painting for plate 221 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816); slight cockling in upper left margin. Floated, glazed and framed. Found in the mountains of Europe and Asia, from the Alps to the Himalayas.

Provenance

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