Old Master Drawings

Old Master Drawings

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PIERRE-JOSEPH REDOUTÉ | TWO BOTANICAL STUDIES FROM LES LILIACÉES: A) MASSONIA PUSTULEUSE (MASSONIA PUSTULATA) B) PARISETTE À QUATRE FEUILLES (PARIS QUADRIFOLIA)

Auction Closed

January 29, 05:09 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

PIERRE-JOSEPH REDOUTÉ

Saint-Hubert 1759 - 1840 Paris

TWO BOTANICAL STUDIES FROM LES LILIACÉES:

A) MASSONIA PUSTULEUSE (MASSONIA PUSTULATA)

B) PARISETTE À QUATRE FEUILLES (PARIS QUADRIFOLIA)


Both watercolor and bodycolor, with touches of gum arabic, over black chalk, on vellum;

both signed in brown ink, lower left: P.J. Redouté

A) 483 by 341 mm; 19 by 13½in

B) 472 by 342 mm; 18½ by 13½ in

(2)

Acquired from the artist by Empress Josephine;

thence by descent to Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Bavaria;

thence by descent until sold, ("Sale of the Library of Eugène de Beauharnais"), Zurich, Braus-Riggenbach and Ulrico Hoepli, 23 May 1935, lot 82;

Erhard Weyhe, New York;

sale (''Pierre-Joseph Redouté's Liliacées"), New York, Sotheby's, 20 November 1985, lots 183 and 226, to W. Graham Arader, New York

See note to the previous lot.