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REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840). Les Liliacées. Text by Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle (vols. I-IV), François Delaroche (vols. V-VI) and Alire Raffeneau-Delile (vols. VII-VIII). Paris: Imprimerie de Didot jeune for the author, 1805-1816.

Auction 23.11.1994
23.11.1994
Schätzpreis
100.000 £ - 130.000 £
ca. 158.941 $ - 206.623 $
Zuschlagspreis:
89.500 £
ca. 142.252 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 108

REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840). Les Liliacées. Text by Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle (vols. I-IV), François Delaroche (vols. V-VI) and Alire Raffeneau-Delile (vols. VII-VIII). Paris: Imprimerie de Didot jeune for the author, 1805-1816.

Auction 23.11.1994
23.11.1994
Schätzpreis
100.000 £ - 130.000 £
ca. 158.941 $ - 206.623 $
Zuschlagspreis:
89.500 £
ca. 142.252 $
Beschreibung:

REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840). Les Liliacées. Text by Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle (vols. I-IV), François Delaroche (vols. V-VI) and Alire Raffeneau-Delile (vols. VII-VIII). Paris: Imprimerie de Didot jeune for the author, 1805-1816. 8 volumes in four, large 2° (542 x 355mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait of Redouté by C. S. Pradier after Gerard in vol.I, 486 STIPPLE-ENGRAVED PLATES PRINTED IN COLOURS AND FINISHED BY HAND (except plate 372, uncoloured as usual), by Bessin, Chapuy and others after Reouté, plates numbered to 486, with 370/71 a single folding plate, second state of plate 95 Tradescantia Virginica and the state of plate of 428 with the flower a uniform yellow colour and the imprint Bessin sculp . (Some generally-light browning, spotting or offsetting to about a third of the plates and some text, particularly at the beginning and end of each volume; plate 65, with incorrect engraved number 70, with oblique 30mm tear in lower margin just affecting imprint; plate 86 with upper margin just shaved into engraved plate number; penultimate text leaf in vol.V with 35 mm tear in outer blank margin; plate 327 with slight scuffing to surface of paper slightly affecting title.) Near-contemporary French red half morocco, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in one compartment, the volume numbers in a second, the others ruled in gilt and blind (occasional slight scuffing to extremities). Provenance : Armainvillers (booklabel). A FINE LARGE COPY OF REDOUTÉ'S MASTERPIECE. Many of the plates with at least one uncut edge, all but one of them with the numbering intact (this is most unusual: the numbers were designed to be cut away by the binder). There are two states of the text, with the leaves numbered and unnumbered. The text in this copy is in mixed states (see also the Morgan Library copy). The first volume has a reissued title dated 1805 (the original was dated 1802) and is bound without the dedication to Jean Chaptal. The title is too modest as the work also includes irises, orchids, amaryllis, heliconias, stelitzias, agaves abnd others. Redouté is undoubtedly the most famous of all flower painters. Born in Saint Hubert, Belgium in 1759, by 1798 he was in the employment of Joséphine Bonaparte, an association that lasted until her death in 1814. He had learnt plant anatomy, the techniques of dissection and how to make drawings that were detailed and botanically correct from L'Hériter de Brutelle; Gérard van Spaendonck, professor of flower painting at the Jardin du Roi and overseer of the vélins du Roi collection, taught him new techniques for capturing the subtle almost luminous gradations of tone and colour using pure watercolour on vellum in preference to the much heavier gouache; and after a trip to London with L'Hériter when Redouté met Francesco Bartolozzi he mastered and improved on Bartolozzi's technique for producing coloured stipple-engravings. Redouté's synthesis of these skills was to produce perhaps the greatest ever series of botanical works: the first of these was Les Liliacées. It was originally issued in 80 parts between 1802 and 1816 and although not directly commissioned by Joséphine it is doubtful that Redouté would have been able to find finance for so massive a work without her patronage. Indeed it was almost certainly through her intercession that Minster of the Interior Chaptal was authorised in 1805 to subscribe to 80 copies on behalf of the Emperor. These were distributed to museums or given as Imperial gifts by Foreign Minister Talleyrand. Stafleu and Cowan 8747; Nissen BBI 1597; Great Flower Books p.71; Dunthorne 231; I.MacPhail, 'Books Illustrated by Redouté' in G.H.M.Lawrence A catalogue of Redoutéana exhibited at the Hunt Botanical Library , Pittsburgh: 1963. 10. (4)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 108
Auktion:
Datum:
23.11.1994
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840). Les Liliacées. Text by Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle (vols. I-IV), François Delaroche (vols. V-VI) and Alire Raffeneau-Delile (vols. VII-VIII). Paris: Imprimerie de Didot jeune for the author, 1805-1816. 8 volumes in four, large 2° (542 x 355mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait of Redouté by C. S. Pradier after Gerard in vol.I, 486 STIPPLE-ENGRAVED PLATES PRINTED IN COLOURS AND FINISHED BY HAND (except plate 372, uncoloured as usual), by Bessin, Chapuy and others after Reouté, plates numbered to 486, with 370/71 a single folding plate, second state of plate 95 Tradescantia Virginica and the state of plate of 428 with the flower a uniform yellow colour and the imprint Bessin sculp . (Some generally-light browning, spotting or offsetting to about a third of the plates and some text, particularly at the beginning and end of each volume; plate 65, with incorrect engraved number 70, with oblique 30mm tear in lower margin just affecting imprint; plate 86 with upper margin just shaved into engraved plate number; penultimate text leaf in vol.V with 35 mm tear in outer blank margin; plate 327 with slight scuffing to surface of paper slightly affecting title.) Near-contemporary French red half morocco, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in one compartment, the volume numbers in a second, the others ruled in gilt and blind (occasional slight scuffing to extremities). Provenance : Armainvillers (booklabel). A FINE LARGE COPY OF REDOUTÉ'S MASTERPIECE. Many of the plates with at least one uncut edge, all but one of them with the numbering intact (this is most unusual: the numbers were designed to be cut away by the binder). There are two states of the text, with the leaves numbered and unnumbered. The text in this copy is in mixed states (see also the Morgan Library copy). The first volume has a reissued title dated 1805 (the original was dated 1802) and is bound without the dedication to Jean Chaptal. The title is too modest as the work also includes irises, orchids, amaryllis, heliconias, stelitzias, agaves abnd others. Redouté is undoubtedly the most famous of all flower painters. Born in Saint Hubert, Belgium in 1759, by 1798 he was in the employment of Joséphine Bonaparte, an association that lasted until her death in 1814. He had learnt plant anatomy, the techniques of dissection and how to make drawings that were detailed and botanically correct from L'Hériter de Brutelle; Gérard van Spaendonck, professor of flower painting at the Jardin du Roi and overseer of the vélins du Roi collection, taught him new techniques for capturing the subtle almost luminous gradations of tone and colour using pure watercolour on vellum in preference to the much heavier gouache; and after a trip to London with L'Hériter when Redouté met Francesco Bartolozzi he mastered and improved on Bartolozzi's technique for producing coloured stipple-engravings. Redouté's synthesis of these skills was to produce perhaps the greatest ever series of botanical works: the first of these was Les Liliacées. It was originally issued in 80 parts between 1802 and 1816 and although not directly commissioned by Joséphine it is doubtful that Redouté would have been able to find finance for so massive a work without her patronage. Indeed it was almost certainly through her intercession that Minster of the Interior Chaptal was authorised in 1805 to subscribe to 80 copies on behalf of the Emperor. These were distributed to museums or given as Imperial gifts by Foreign Minister Talleyrand. Stafleu and Cowan 8747; Nissen BBI 1597; Great Flower Books p.71; Dunthorne 231; I.MacPhail, 'Books Illustrated by Redouté' in G.H.M.Lawrence A catalogue of Redoutéana exhibited at the Hunt Botanical Library , Pittsburgh: 1963. 10. (4)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 108
Auktion:
Datum:
23.11.1994
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
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