Choix des plus belles fleurs
Author | Pierre-Joseph Redouté |
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Country | France |
Language | French |
Publisher | Ernest Panckoucke, Paris |
Publication date | 1827 |
Choix des plus belles fleurs (The most beautiful flowers and fruits) is a book of watercolor drawings by the French artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté. It has 144 drawings in color reproduced copperplates.[1]
Description
The full title is in French Choix des plus belles fleurs et de quelques branches of plus beaux fruits. Dédié à LL. AA. RR. les princesses Louise et Marie d'Orléans (1827). A folio edition was printed with color pages in Paris in 1827.[2]
From May 1827 to June 1833 144 special pages were printed with pictures. The work consisted of 36 parts, each of four pictures of flowers, flowering trees or fruits contained.[3]
Redouté worked for half a century as an art teacher for French queens and princesses. He dedicated the book of beautiful flowers and fruits to his pupils Louise and Princess Marie of Orléans.[4]
Flowers and Fruit
References
- ↑ "Das Schweizer Buch".
- ↑ "First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art".
- ↑ "George Glazer Gallery - Antique Botanical Prints - Flower Prints from Redoute's Choix des Plus Belle Fleurs".
- ↑ "Rare Book Room".
External links
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.