Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz

Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (French, 1731–1807) a physician, lawyer and naturalist.

• Sold as a set of 12.
• Hand-colored and engraved plates with printed Chinese captions.
• A fine collection of highly decorative flowers engraved after Chinese drawings, with contemporary

hand-coloring.

• Published in the Collection Précieuse et Enluminée des Fleurs les Plus Belles et les Plus

Curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les Jardins de la Chine que dans ceux de l'Europe; they feature pale blue skies, rocky backgrounds and often birds, butterflies, insects or animals; many plates have captions

in Chinese characters below the border.

• Buc'hoz was the first European to copy the Asian style in this way.
• His works are characterized by the beauty of the illustrations, and their rarity owing to the small size of the print runs.
• Framed and glazed.