Sowerbaea juncea

1802/1816

Pierre Joseph Redouté

Associated Names
Pierre Joseph Redouté

Artist, French, 1759 - 1840

The image features a botanical illustration of a plant with long, slender green stems and clusters of small lavender and purple flowers at their tips. The color palette consists mainly of shades of green, lavender, purple, and brown, with some muted background tones. In the center of the image, the plant's roots extend downward, while five flowering stems fan out from various angles in the upper half. To the left, a single stem is depicted without a flower, and to the right are small sketches of the plant's parts. The background is a neutral off-white.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and graphite on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Roger and Barbara Ditman

  • Dimensions

    framed: 44.45 × 57.15 cm (17 1/2 × 22 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 46.7 × 34 cm (18 3/8 × 13 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.134.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Empress Joséphine Bonaparte (1763-1814), Château de Malmaison; by descent to her son, Prince Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (1781-1824), later Duke of Leuchtenberg, Seeon-Seebruck; by descent with the Dukes of Leuchtenberg, Seeon-Seebruck;(Braus-Riggenbach and Ulrico Hoepli, Zurich, 23-24 May 1935, lot 82); (Erhard Weyhe, New York); by descent to a private family trust; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 November 1985, lot 341); (Arader Galleries, New York); Roger and Barbara Ditman, New York; gift to National Gallery of Art, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

recto: at lower left, in black ink: P. J. Redouté

Markings

none

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