Iris ochroleuca

1802/1816

Pierre Joseph Redouté

Associated Names
Pierre Joseph Redouté

Artist, French, 1759 - 1840

The image shows an illustration of an iris plant with detailed white flowers and yellow accents. Green leaves accompany the flowers. In the center, the main iris plant is depicted with flowers. Adjacent to it, there are sketches of a petal and the structure of the iris flower.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and graphite on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Roger and Barbara Ditman

  • Dimensions

    framed: 60.96 × 75.57 cm (24 × 29 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 48.6 × 35 cm (19 1/8 × 13 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.134.8


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 350); (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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