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Anemone Simple, Anemone Simplex
$7,500List Price
About the Item
Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs.
Panckoucke, Paris, 1827-33.
Langlois, printer.
Stipple engraving, finished by hand.
144 plates. 9.5” x 13”.
Pierre Joseph Redoute, often called the “Raphael of Flowers”, was born in the Belgian Ardennes—the son, grandson, great-grandson and brother of artists. From the beginning Redoute’s talents were recognized by distinguished men and women who took pleasure in forwarding his career. For the study of botany, his teacher was Heritier de Burtelle, one of the outstanding naturalists of his day. Gerard van Spaendonck, Flower Painter to the King, taught Redoute the technique of painting in watercolor on vellum. But by the master’s own account, the pupil’s work was finer.
The luminosity of stipple engraving is particularly suited to the reproduction of botanical detail. It is essentially a technique of engraving a copper plate with a dense grid of dots which can be modulated to convey delicate gradations of color. Because the ink lies on the paper in miniscule dots, it does not obscure the ‘light’ of the white paper beneath the color. After this complicated printing process was complete, the prints were then finished by hand in watercolor to conform to the models Redoute provided.
Redoute had as pupils or patrons many members of Royalty. These included five queens and empresses of France, from Marie Antoinette to Josephine to her successor, the Empress Marie-Louise. Despite many changes of regime in this turbulent epoch, Redoute worked without interruption eventually contributing to over fifty books on natural history and archaeology.
The Choix des Plus Belle Fleurs is one of Redoute’s last works. The ‘choice of the most beautiful flowers’ is personal. They are the favorite flowers and fruits of a master who had devoted a lifetime to the art of botanical illustration. There are the spectacular blooms of formal gardening, but also many modest blooms of the peculiar virtue of concentration. Each image is presented for the viewer to savor the essence of each beautiful flower.
Gordon Dunthorne, Flower Fruit Prints. Dunthorne. USA, 1938.
M. Rix, W. Stearn, Redoute’s Fairest Flowers. Prentice Hall Press, 1987.
- Dimensions:Height: 24.75 in (62.87 cm)Width: 21.75 in (55.25 cm)
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:1827-1833.
- Condition:Excellent Condition. Full Margins. Original Stipple Engriving with Original Hand-Color.
- Seller Location:Florham Park, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: U090128857113
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