Diasia iridifolia

1802/1816

Pierre Joseph Redouté

Associated Names
Pierre Joseph Redouté

Artist, French, 1759 - 1840

The image shows a botanical illustration of a flowering plant with elongated green leaves and a slender, arching stem bearing several small flowers. The flowers are white with hints of pink and yellow at the tips. The color palette includes shades of green, pink, and white. The plant is centered with its bulb and roots visible at the bottom. The flowers are distributed along the stem, reaching towards the upper-right corner. Small sketches of flower parts and petals are drawn faintly to the right of the plant.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and graphite on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Roger and Barbara Ditman

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 47.6 × 34.3 cm (18 3/4 × 13 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.134.4

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 54); (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

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Watermarks

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