LOT DETAILS

Materials:

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

Measurements:

18.50 in. (47.00 cm.) (height) by 13.23 in. (33.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in brown ink, lower left: P.J. Redouté

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 (''Pierre-Joseph Redouté's Liliacées"), New York, Sotheby's, 20 November 1985, lot 165, to W. Graham Arader, New York