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PIERRE-JOSEPH REDOUTÉ | Tulipe sauvage (Tulipa sylvestris)
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté
- Tulipe sauvage (Tulipa sylvestris)
- Watercolour and bodycolour, with touches of gum arabic, over black chalk, on vellum;signed in brown ink, lower left: P.J. Redouté
- 470 by 336 mm
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, Replica Shoes 's, 20 November 1985, lot 165, to W. Graham Arader, New York
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, Replica Shoes 's, 20 November 1985, lot 165, to W. Graham Arader, New York
Catalogue Note
See note to the previous lot.