Fine Art Print - Botanical Print Matted And Framed - PJ Redoute

About the artist:
he dominated botanical painting between 1790 - 1830
he was art tutor to Marie Antoinette (the last Queen of France) and she became his patron.
Redouté received the title of "Draughtsman and Painter to the Queen's Cabinet".
in 1798 The Empress Josephine Bonaparte, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte,
also became his patron and appointed him to paint the flowers of the garden at Malmaison.
his works were exhibited in The Louvre
he produced over 2,100 paintings for published plates depicting over 1,800 different species, many of which had never been rendered before.

1759 - Born July 10, 1759 in St. Hubert, Ardennes, Belgium. Redouté is Belgian (not French), even though he lived for most of his life in France.

He was the second son in his family and was born into a long line of Belgian painters. His father taught him to paint and by the age of 6 young Pierre-Joseph was producing small paintings.

Age 13, he left home to earn his living as an artist. He then spent the next 10 years living a precarious life as an itinerant painter. He travelled across Flanders and the Low Countries and studied the paintings of the Flemish Masters when and where he could.

In Amsterdam, he came across the flower paintings of both Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) and Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) who were prominent Dutch 18th century flower painters whose paintings sold for lots of money. Given his previously precarious existence both the flower paintings and their undoubted value doubtless provided a catalyst for the future direction of subject matter for his painting

1782 - Age 23, he joined his elder brother in Paris to work as a stage-set designer for the new Theatre Italien.

He devoted his time off to a developing interest in painting flowers. He was also given instruction in the technique of colour-printing. He also attended lectures by Gerard van Spaendonck, a Dutch painter and the official Royal Professor of Painting for the French court.

​He sought rare plants to draw and drew the many unusual plants in the glasshouses of Le Jardin de Roi - The Royal Garden of Medicinal Plants - now known as the Jardin des Plantes.

A record - and archive - of all plants brought to the garden was made through drawings and paintings - now known as Collection des Vélins (The Collection of Vellum). Today it contains nearly 7,000 gouaches and watercolors on vellum representing flowers, plants and animals.

This is where he met Charles L'Heritier de Brutelle, a noted French aristocrat, biologist and plant collector. ​L’Héritier was a committed devotee of Linnaeus
He taught Redouté about plant anatomy, the dissection of flowers and their scientific representation - and what botanists required of illustrations.
​Heritier commissioned him to illustrate a book on botany. As a result he created more than 50 drawings which were then engraved to become plates in L'Heritier's Stirpes Novae (New Plants 1784-85)

Beautiful warm gold frame ( not 1980s cheesy) with a flower print.
Flowers are also on trend. Please check out pictures for details
15 inches wide
17.5 inches long

Very Good

18%

Jesse Mikan | (860) 271-9656 | newtonlable@gmail.com

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Saturday, 3/13, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

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