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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Rose

Pierre Joseph Redouté
1759-1840

Rose

Apr. 1840
9 7/8 x 7 15/16 inches (251 x 202 mm)
Watercolor over pencil on vellum.
1957.23

Bequest of Edwin de T. Bechtel.

Notes
This unfinished drawing is considered to be one of the artist's last works; he died on June 19, 1840.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated, in pen and brown ink, at lower left, "P. J. Redouté / (Avril 1840)".
Associated names
Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984, former owner.
Bechtel, Edwin DeTurck, 1880-1957, former owner.
Bibliography
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 115-116.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 162.
Flowers in Books and Drawings ca. 940-1840, Helen B. Mules, Dr. Paul Needham, William M. Voelkle, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1980, no. 131.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department