A Bouquet of Flowers with Insects

Pierre Joseph Redouté

Associated Names
Pierre Joseph Redouté

Artist, French, 1759 - 1840

This painting shows a bouquet of flowers with tall white and light-blue blossoms at the top, accompanied by wide green leaves and darker purple and blue flowers towards the bottom. A small orange and white butterfly rests on one of the large green leaves towards the bottom left, and a few other small brown bugs rest on leaves and stems. The background is plain, off-white paper, with a dark brown rectangular border.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over traces of graphite with gold on vellum; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25.3 x 17.2 cm (9 15/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
    support: 28.3 x 22.3 cm (11 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1988.12.1

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Inscriptions

recto: on sheet, at lower left in brown ink: P. J. Redoute pinx; on mount, at lower right, in brown ink, in later hand: 7; verso: none

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q64619619

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