Lot no. 10
Redouté, Pierre-Joseph
A magnificent work by one of the greatest botanical painters. With 144 stipple engravings, printed in color and finished by hand, retouchées au pinceau.
- Contemp. half morocco with lettering to spine (rubbed and bumped).
- This masterpiece of Redouté's later years is one of the finest of all collections of flower prints, showing to full advantage the brilliancy of colour printing; originally published without text (Dunthorne). The fruit and flowers depicted - among them roses, irises, amaryllises a.o.
- were grown in the Malmaison gardens of the Empress Josephine. The best engravers created the prints based on Redouté's original watercolors. The success of these illustrations depends to a large extent on the highly complex stipple engraving technique. Minute dots were placed on the copper plate. The plate was then 'painted' with colors, and the ink adhered to each of the dots. Afterwards details and nuances were added by hand watercolor pigments. The 'Table alphabétique et explicative', which appeared in 1833, gives brief descriptions and history of the plants.
- The plates (ca. 37x26 cm) are numbered 1-144 (not printed 25, 67 and 135; added: 59bis, 89bis and 114bis;).
- 2 plates, Titel and 1. leaves margins partly cropped closer, slightly foxed (mostly to the protective tissue between text and illustr.) - An excellent complete copy with finely coloured plates.
Redouté, Pierre-Joseph
Choix des plus belles fleurs prises dans différentes familles du règne végétal et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits groupées quelquefois, et souvent animées par des insectes et des papillons; gravées, imprimées en couleur et retouchées au pinceau. Mit 144 beikolorierten Farbstichtafeln. Paris, Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, um 1835. 2 Bll., 20 S. Folio. HMaroquin d. Zt. mit RTitel. (beschabt u. bestoßen).
Vgl. Nissen, BBI 1591 - Pritzel 7456 - Dunthorne 235 - Great Flower Books 129 - Plesch 628 - De Belder 724 (sale 294) - Erstmals ab 1827 in 36 Lieferungen erschienen, die Table alphabétique et explicative 1833. Auswahl der besten Blumen- u. Früchtedarstellungen des großen französischen Malers und Stechers, Beleg für die geniale Meisterschaft Redoutés, Genauigkeit und Deutlichkeit in künstlerischer Komposition darzubieten ... Der Farbdruck, licht, klar und schön, ist so recht repräsentativ für das Napoleonische Empire ... Die Choix des plus belles fleurs ... verraten ... etwas von der geradezu religiösen Andacht, mit der er die Schöpfungen der Natur porträtiert haben soll. Im Grunde seines Herzens stellte Redouté die wissenschaftliche Darstellung doch immer noch über Kompositions- und Farbeffekte (Nissen).
- Tafeln (ca. 37x26 cm) num. 1-144 (25, 67, 135 ausgelassen; 59 bis, 89 bis, 114 bis).
- Seidenhemdchen teils mit Knickspuren und Einrissen, teils etwas stockfleckig (meist die Seidenhemdchen), Titel, 1. Bl. u. Taf. 35 und 84 etwas knapper beschnitten (eventuell aus anderem Exemplar?), 3 Tafelnumerierungen handschriftlich.
- Insgesamt gutes Exemplar, die farbfrischen Kupfer in feinem und leuchtendem Kolorit.
Pictures credits: Contact organization
Drawings, watercolours and pastels
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