LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Watercolor and bodycolor, with touches of gum arabic, over pencil, on vellum

Measurements:

19.02 in. (48.30 cm.) (height) by 13.50 in. (34.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in brown ink, lower left: P.J. Redouté and the subsidiary studies numbered in pencil: 1., 2., 3. and 4.

Provenance:

Acquired from the artist by Empress Josephine,. thence by descent to Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Bavaria,. thence by descent until sold, ("Sale of the Library of Eugène de Beauharnais"), Zurich, Braus-Riggenbach and Ulrico Hoepli, 23 May 1935, lot 82;. Erhard Weyhe, New York;. sale (''The Property of a Private Trust"), New York, Sotheby's, 20 November 1985, lot 51