Redoute
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers from the gardens of the Chateau de Malmaison, home of the Empress Josephine. His patrons included Marie-Antoinette, both of Napoleon’s Empresses and the wife of King Louis-Philippe. Many of his paintings were published as large, hand-colour stipple engravings, and he was nicknamed ‘the Raphael of flowers’.
Redouté Most Notable Works
Today Redouté is recognized as one of the greatest flower painters of all time.
His most notable printed works are: Les Liliacees, 1802-16; Jardin de la Malmaison,1803; Les Roses, 1817-24; Choix des plus belles fleurs, 1827.
Collecting Redoute
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Watercolour and gouache on vellum.
39.2 x 31.2 cm
Framed in perspex boxes: 39.5cm by 47.5cm by 5.5cm.£9,750 -
Stipple-engraved plate of Bananas printed in colours and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall size: 42.5cm by 62cm.
£4,500 -
Group of nine stipple-engraved plates of Amaryllis, printed in colours and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall size: 43.3 cm by 61.8 cm.
£30,000 -
Set of three stipple-engraved plates of Pineapple and plants, printed in colours and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall size: 43.5 x 62 cm.
£10,000 -
Watercolour over traces of black chalk on vellum, within gold framing lines; signed in pen and brown ink, lower left: P. J. Redouté.; 385 x 270 mm. (15 1/4 x 10 5/8 in).
£50,000 -
Pencil and watercolour on vellum, 21 x 15.8 cm, signed and dated at the lower right, sometime laid-down on paper, framed and glazed.
£20,000 -
Stipple engraving, printed in colour and finished by hand, very good condition, strong colour, trimmed to the plate mark .
£1,875 -
Stipple engraving, part printed in colours and finished by hand, first edition, trimmed to just outside of platemark, but good colour.
£1,750
