Tradescantia virginica

1802/1816

Pierre Joseph Redouté

Associated Names
Pierre Joseph Redouté

Artist, French, 1759 - 1840

A tall, slender green stem with elongated leaves and a cluster of vibrant purple flowers is featured in the image. The color palette is mainly green with touches of purple in the flowers and small hints of yellow in the flower centers. The stem stands vertically in the middle of the composition, with long leaves splaying out to both sides and flowers near the top section of the stem.

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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 Number

    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

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