Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
Auction Closed
January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
PIERRE-JOSEPH REDOUTÉ
Saint-Hubert 1759 - 1840 Paris
TWO BOTANICAL STUDIES FROM LES LILIACÉES:
A) MASSONIA PUSTULEUSE (MASSONIA PUSTULATA)
B) PARISETTE À QUATRE FEUILLES (PARIS QUADRIFOLIA)
Both watercolor and bodycolor, with touches of gum arabic, over black chalk, on vellum;
both signed in brown ink, lower left: P.J. Redouté
A) 483 by 341 mm; 19 by 13½in
B) 472 by 342 mm; 18½ by 13½ in
(2)
Acquired from the artist by Empress Josephine;
thence by descent to Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Bavaria;
thence by descent until sold, ("Sale of the Library of Eugène de Beauharnais"), Zurich, Braus-Riggenbach and Ulrico Hoepli, 23 May 1935, lot 82;
Erhard Weyhe, New York;
sale (''Pierre-Joseph Redouté's Liliacées"), New York, Sotheby's, 20 November 1985, lots 183 and 226, to W. Graham Arader, New York
See note to the previous lot.
