Choix des plus belles fleurs

Author Pierre-Joseph Redouté
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

  1. ↑ "Das Schweizer Buch".
  2. ↑ "First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art".
  3. ↑ "George Glazer Gallery - Antique Botanical Prints - Flower Prints from Redoute's Choix des Plus Belle Fleurs".
  4. ↑ "Rare Book Room".

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