Pierre-Joseph Redouté

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35,000 - 45,000 GBP

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109,250 GBP

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Description

Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Rosa gallica granatus
Watercolour over pencil with touches of gum arabic, within gold framing lines, on vellum;
signed in brown ink, lower left: P.J. Redouté.;
the mount inscribed in gold: Rosa Gallica Granatus. and bears numbering in pencil, lower right: 32
384 by 270 mm

Literature

P.-J. Redouté and C.-A. Thory, Les Roses, Paris 1817-24, vol. III, pp. 105-106, engraved by Langlois

Catalogue Note

One of several Gallica roses pictured by Redouté but now extinct; Redouté's painting is the only record of this beautiful flower, the modern name of which is Rosa 'Pomme de Grenade'.