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Plate 78 - Strelitzia Reginae (Bird of Paradise flower) by Pierre-Joseph Redouté - 1816
by Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Plate 78 - Strelitzia Reginae (Bird of Paradise flower)
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Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Hand-colored stipple engraving from Les Liliacées
Paris: 1802-1816
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The unequalled botanical artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté occupies a central position in the development of European flower painting. Redouté had, as pupils or patrons, five queens and empresses of France, fromMarie-Antoinette to Empress Josephine and her successor, Marie-Louise. Despite many changes of regime in a turbulent epoch, he worked without interruption, a testament to his greatness as an artist. Les Liliacées was Redouté's largest and most ambitious work and is generally considered his masterpiece, arguably rivaled only by Les Roses. Produced under the patronage of the Empress Josephine, for whom Redouté worked as botanical artist at her estate at Malmaison, these pristine examples represent landmark works in the field of flower illustration.
The title Les Liliacées is misleading, as the work was of a much broader scope, including representatives of the lily, amaryllis, iris, orchid, and other families. The plates were executed by means of stipple engraving, a method that the artist himself perfected when he was unsatisfied with the effects garnered by traditional copper-plate engraving. As Redouté shrewdly observed, the delicacy and subtle elegance of his compositions could only be captured using a printing method equally fine. The luminosity of stipple engraving is particularly suited to the reproduction of botanical detail. The medium involved engraving a copper plate with a dense grid of dots that could be modulated to convey delicate gradations of color. Because the ink rested on the paper in miniscule dots, it did not obscure the "light" of the paper beneath the color. After this complicated printing process was complete, the prints were finished by hand in watercolor, so as to conform to the exquisite models Redouté provided.
Les Liliacées records the plants of the lily family, and related flowers, that Josephine collected for her gardens at Malmaison. Redouté's small drawings, placed at the bottom of the main illustrations, record the anatomical features of each species so that each flower could be identified with precision and cultivated to perfection. In each illustration, as in his series Les Roses, the flowers are classical "portraits" which lack backgrounds or settings. The regal simplicity of the compositions allows the viewer to focus without distraction on the beauty and delicate complexity of the plants themselves. Redoutés's work represents a uniquely harmonious blend of scientific precision and supremely delicate rendering.
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- Keywords lily, rose, botanical, flower
Hundertwasser: Osterreicher des 20. Jahrhunderts
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Florina and the Wild Bird
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Illuminations Nouvelles. With an original, signed drawing by Raoul Dufy.
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Tamara de Lempicka. Catalogue Raisonne 1921-1979
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Hundertwasser: Osterreicher des 20. Jahrhunderts
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Florina and the Wild Bird
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Illuminations Nouvelles. With an original, signed drawing by Raoul Dufy.
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Tamara de Lempicka. Catalogue Raisonne 1921-1979
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Canadian Army Journal Volume 3 Number 9 December 1949
by The Canadian Legion- British Empire Service League
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Paysages Africains: Tchad, Tibesti, Fezzan, Borkou
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Illustration Index
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Catalogus Der Rubens-Tentoonstelling
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Life with the Painters of La Ruche
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G. Braque
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The Lives of the Painters - (4 Vol. Set)
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Lautrec By Lautrec - 128 Reproductions In Color
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
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Intimate Collaborations: Kandinsky and Muenter, Arp and Taeuber
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