Rosier a feuilles de Laitue

by Pierre-Joseph RedoutÉ

$750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A beautiful image from Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs : one of greatest flower books ever published by the most celebrated flower painter of all time. Pierre-Joseph Redouté was one of the world's great flower painters. Born into a family that had been painters for at least two generations, Redouté went to Paris in 1782 with his brother where they worked as scene painters for the Théâtre Italien. Redouté painted flowers in his spare time. The

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.