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Total pages original book: 336
Includes a PDF summary of 36 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 28M9S (7.2 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) was forever in high demand. Official court draftsman to Queen Marie Antoinette (who purportedly summoned him at midnight to paint a cactus), and later a favorite of Josephine Bonaparte, the artist brought flowers to the highest of places, and offset the chaotic upheaval of the French Revolution with the delicacy of perfectly drawn petals.This reprint brings together 144 examples of Redoute's flower, branch, and fruit drawings. Originally published between 1827 and 1833, these precise yet tender illustrations are as delightful as they are informative, recording some of the most delicate plant specimens in the world and evoking the bygone magnificence of Parisian greenhouses and gardens.
Other categories, genre or collection: Trees, Wildflowers & Plants, Botanical Art, Animals & Nature In Art (still Life, Landscapes & Seascapes, Etc), Drawing, Art History, Botany & Plant Sciences, Prints, Individual Artists, Art Monographs, Art History: c 1800 to c 1900, Watercolours