The Redoute Imcludes a Suite of eighty-four bouquets never before published.

Arader, Graham

ISBN 10: 0879514396 / ISBN 13: 9780879514396

Published by The Overlook Press, New York, 1991

About this Item

Unpaginated. Pages are clean and unmarked. Brick red cloth boards with gold embossed text along spine. Beige glossy printed pictorial paper dust jacket in good condition with mild sunning. Corners pointed and binding secure.

Seller Inventory # 90018

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Redoute Imcludes a Suite of eighty-four bouquets never before published.
• Publisher: The Overlook Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879514396
• ISBN 13: 9780879514396
• Binding: Hardcover. Folio
• Condition: Very Good.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good.
• Seller catalogs:
  • GARDENS & GARDENING
  • BOTANICAL

About this title

Synopsis

The Redouté album is absolutely unique in that it reproduces,for the first time anywhere, an untitled collection of bouquets lithographed by Redoute. This work has never been catalogued, and the originals have only recently surfaced, authenticated by a number of experts on Redoute's work. Each plate bears his name, and each is an exquisite example of his impeccable sense of color and composition. Pierre-Joseph Redouté was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers". He was an official court artist of Queen Marie Antoinette, and he continued painting through the French Revolution and Reign of Terror. Redouté survived the turbulent political upheaval to gain international recognition for his precise renderings of plants, which remain as fresh in the early 21st century as when first painted. Paris was the cultural and scientific centre of Europe during an outstanding period in botanical illustration (1798 – 1837), one noted for the publication of several folio books with coloured plates. Enthusiastically, Redouté became an heir to the tradition of the Flemish and Dutch flower painters Brueghel, Ruysch, van Huysum and de Heem. Redouté contributed over 2,100 published plates depicting over 1,800 different species, many never rendered before.

Language Notes

Text: English, French