Pierre Joseph Redouté

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers from the gardens of the Chateau de Malmaison, home of the Empress Josephine. His patrons included Marie-Antoinette, both of Napoleon’s Empresses and the wife of King Louis-Philippe. Many of his paintings were published as large, hand-colour stipple engravings, and he was nicknamed ‘the Raphael of flowers’. Today Redouté is recognized as one of the greatest flower painters of all time.

His most notable printed works are: Les Liliacees, 1802-16; Jardin de la Malmaison,1803; Les Roses, 1817-24; Choix des plus belles fleurs, 1827.

[SCHOOL OF REDOUTE] -

A pair of Still Lifes of Roses in Vases

Watercolour and gouache on vellum.
39.2 x 31.2 cm
Framed in perspex boxes: 39.5cm by 47.5cm by 5.5cm.

£9,750
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.

Musa paradisiaca - Banana.

Stipple-engraved plate of Bananas printed in colours and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall size: 42.5cm by 62cm.

£4,500
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.

Group of Nine Amaryllis

Group of nine stipple-engraved plates of Amaryllis, printed in colours and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall size: 43.3 cm by 61.8 cm.

£30,000
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.

Set of Three Bromelia (Pineapples)

Set of three stipple-engraved plates of Pineapple and plants, printed in colours and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall size: 43.5 x 62 cm.

£10,000
REDOUTE, Pierre Joseph.

Rosa parvi-flora.

Watercolour over traces of black chalk on vellum, within gold framing lines; signed in pen and brown ink, lower left: P. J. Redouté.; 385 x 270 mm. (15 1/4 x 10 5/8 in).

£50,000
REDOUTE, P[ierre] J[oseph].

White rose with other flowers. Floral watercolour on vellum.

Pencil and watercolour on vellum, 21 x 15.8 cm, signed and dated at the lower right, sometime laid-down on paper, framed and glazed.

£20,000
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph; DE GOUY (engraver).

Amaryllis Equestris.

Stipple engraving, printed in colour and finished by hand, very good condition, strong colour, trimmed to the plate mark .

£1,875
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph (engraved by Langlois).

Rosier Gallica Gueriniana.

Stipple engraving, part printed in colours and finished by hand, first edition, trimmed to just outside of platemark, but good colour.

£1,750