Tradescantia virginica

1802/1816

Pierre Joseph Redouté

Artist, French, 1759 - 1840

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and graphite on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Roger and Barbara Ditman

  • Dimensions

    framed: 50.8 × 63.5 cm (20 × 25 in.)
    sheet: 47.8 × 34.4 cm (18 13/16 × 13 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.134.7


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 95); (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

Watermarks

none


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