1799,TOP REDOUTE' PAINTED BY HAND LARGE FOLIO LEDON B9

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Title "Arbres et Arbustes" Author /Artist Redouté . Date 1799-1 819 Sizes 10" x 15" 7/8 (25,5 x 40,5 cm) Descri ption Numbered Color stipple engraving. Names in French and Latin . Rare w ith b eautiful original hand coloring. Other plates Other Plates . "Arbres et Arbuste" By Pierre-Jose ph Redouté Biography of the Artist . Pierre-Joseph Redouté (17 99 – 1 819 ) Born in Saint-Hubert in 1759, Pierre-Joseph Redouté was a Belgian artist and botanist. He began his career as interior decorator and painter of cathedrals of Northern Europe pieces . In 1782 Redouté joined his elder brother - Antoine Ferdinand, an interior decorator and scenery designer - in Paris. There he was discovered by the botanist C. L. L’Héritier de Brutelle, who trained him as a botanical artist and employed him to illustrate his publications. L’Héritier also introduced Redouté to the French court and help him to be appointed as official painter of the Queen’s Cabinet. Some years later Redouté also become the official Artist of the Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. During Josephine patronage Redouté produced his most celebrated plates illustrating many exotic plants for the greatest French botanical works of his period: the “ Jardin de Malmaison ” (1803-1805), a large format collection of 120 plates , followed by “ Les Lilacees ” (1802-18 16) a monumental work with 486 plates on the lilac flower; “ Traité des Arbres et Arbustes ”(1799-1819). Redouté based these works on the rare and extensive specimens of the garden of he château Malmaison in Rueil, following Josephine’s wish to document every plant scientifically . The famous "Les Roses" printed in a deluxe folio edition, dedicated to Redouté’s new patroness, the Duchesse de Berry . Redouté is considered the greatest of all painters of the golden era of botanical illustrations. He was nicknamed “The Raphael of flowers” for his exquisite softness and luminosity and three-dimensionality of the subjects . Redouté used various techniques to produce magnificent works: he developed a special technique of color printing with stipple engravings � la poupée, with final touches of color for vibrancy , with which he produced some of the finest colored botanical illustrations ever published . In many case he also applied colors to engraved plates separately by hand for superior printed illustrations using light graduations of color with occasional strokes of stronger body color in paintings. In the preface of is work “ Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs” Redouté wrote “ …and illustrations of the plant kingdom, captivating the eye of the amateur who is a complete stranger to natural sciences, guiding him from admiration of their portrayal to contemplation of the plants themselves, from love of art to study of nature – how greatly these masterpieces increased the numbers of lovers of botany!”. Description of the w ork. We are proud and happy to be able to offer some of the finest and rarest of fruit and flowers prints ever produced form the “ Arbres et Arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre”. To realize this monumental work 29 engravers were employed to sculpt the nearly 306 plates painted by Redoute. The talent of Redoutè is portrayed in the plates showing a wide vari et y of flowers (including lilacs and roses), fruits, seeds, branches, leaves, cones and more. Each stipple-engraved plate - printed in colours and with final handcolor - is in folio edition and measure approximately 10” by 15” 7/8 (25,5 by 40,5 cm). The condition of these prints is superb, with characteristic strong plate. Superbly handcoloured on wonderful hand made paper . There is no foxing on clean paper. Plates in some case with descriptive text, with names of the plants in French and Latin. Bibli... read more

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