Lot 16
  • 16

Redouté, Pierre Joseph

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

Tofieldia pubescens | Tofieldie pubescente ["Pubescent False Asphodel"]



Very fine watercolor drawing on vellum (18 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.; 476 x 350 mm), signed, the original painting for plate 324 of Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816), with three small sketches in pencil; some slight marginal cockling. Floated, glazed and framed. Native to the Carolinas.

Provenance

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