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French School
19th century
Allium
ca. 1846
Watercolor, white opaque watercolor, over graphite, on wove paper
frame: 16 3/16 x 12 inches (411 x 305 mm); 14 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches (368 x 246 mm)
Donated by Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman in honor of Mrs. Annette de la Renta.
2019.107:5
Notes:
10 original watercolors of garden flowers removed from a contemporary book bound in purple morocco, blind tooled with gilt fillet, gilt initials R.B. in center of cover. France, 1846.
This sheet is from a group of ten watercolors depicting garden flowers removed from a volume bound in purple morocco, blind-tooled with gilt fillet, and stamped in gilt with the initials R.B. in the center of the cover. The binding was produced in France in 1846, suggesting that the botanical illustrations may date around the same time. They are executed on English paper from the Whatman mill and are in the spirit of the eighteenth-century master Pierre-Joseph Redouté.
Inscription:
Watermark: J WHATMAN.
Provenance:
H.P. Kraus sale, New York; from whom purchased in 1975 by Jayne Wrightsman (1919-2019), New York.
Associated names:
Wrightsman, Jayne, former owner.
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