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Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)

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Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)
Ixiolirion tataricum (Mountain Amaryllis)
signed 'P.J. Redouté'
black chalk, watercolor on vellum
18¾ x 13.3/8 in. (476 x 340 mm.)

Empress Joséphine, by descent to
Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, thence by descent to the
Dukes of Leuchtenberg; Braus-Riggenbach and Hoepli, Zrich, 23 May 1935, part of lot 82.
Erhard Weyhe.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 20 November 1985, lot 241.

Specialist note

Ixiolirion tataricum, previously classified as Amaryllis montana, is native to Central Asia. It is first recorded in England in 1844, but, as the present sheet indicates, it must have been grown in France at the beginning of the 19th Century.