Title(s):
Acacia currifolia Acacia mearnsee
Maker:
Redouté, Pierre Joseph; draughtsman; Flemish, 1759-1840
Category:
drawing
Name:
drawing
Date:
1813
School/Style:
French
Description:
Detail studies in graphite of flower and seeds, numbered.
Technique:
watercolour
Material(s):
watercolour; medium
bodycolour; medium
graphite; medium
vellum (skin); support
Technique
Description:
watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on vellum, margins ruled in red and gold ink
Dimension(s):
height, 461, mm
width, 359, mm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1973; Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton, Second Lord
Provenance:
Painted for the Empress Joséphine
Notes:
Bonpland thought this had come from seed which he and Humboldt had brought back from Mexico (apparently also found in Australia). There was only one specimen at Malmaison, sown in 1806, which first flowered in a glass-house in August 1811. He wrote that it continued to flower but did not set fruit. The details show: 1, whole flower, life-size; 2, the same, enlarged; 3, petal; 4, pistil. A print after this drawing was published in Bonpland's 'Descriptions de plantes rares et cultivées à Malmaison et à Navarre', Paris, 1813, pl. 40.
Inscription(s):
signature; lower left; ink; P.J. Redouté
date; lower left, following the above; ink; 1813
; upper right; gold; 40
; below; gold; Acacia Currifolia
Exhibition(s):
Redouté. 1998
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)
Related Object:
PD.122-1973; Botanical drawings
Accession:
Object Number: PD.122-1973.40
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 31860; input: 2001-07-17; modified: 2003-07-29)
(Picture Cabinet reference : 703902)
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