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Henri-Joseph Redouté
1766-1852
Aristotelia Macqui
Design area: 13 7/8 x 9 7/16 inches (353 x 240 mm); full sheet: 22 3/8 x 16 3/4 inches (569 x 426 mm)
Watercolor, over faint black chalk, pen and brown ink, and illuminated border, on wove paper.
1980.83:1
Purchased on the Fellows Fund and Fellows Capital Fund, with the special assistance of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
This is one of four original drawings bound into Carlos Ludovicus L'Héritier de Brutelle, "Stirpes novae...", Paris, 1784 (PML 76745).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in pen and brown ink, at lower left, "henri Jos: Redouté pinx"; key numbers 1 to 10 in pen and brown ink within the design; illuminated outside border, at upper edge, "XVI.", and at lower edge, "ARISTOTELIA Macqui".
Watermark: none.
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Associated names
Wightman, Julia P. (Julia Parker), 1909-1994, donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 211.
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