Important Old Master Paintings

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Lot 113
  • 113

* Pierre-Joseph Redouté Saint-Hubert 1759-1840 Paris

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Description

  • Pierre-Joseph Redouté
  • Maranta arundinacea "Arrowroot"
  • signed lower left P.J. Redouté
  • watercolor and pencil on vellum

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by Empress Josephine;
Thence by descent to Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Bavaria;
Thence by descent in the family;
By whom sold, ("Sale of the Library of Eugène de Beauharnais"), Zurich, Braus-Riggenbach and Ulricho Hoepli, May 23 1935, lot 82;
Erhar Weyhe, New York;
Anonymous sale (The Property of a Private Trust"), New York, Sotheby's, November 20 1985, lot 57, to W. Graham Arader;
With W. Graham Arader, New York, from whom purchased by the present owner.