Redoute Stipple Engraving, Roses, Large Paper

REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840).
Rosa Longifolia
Stipple engraving with original hand color from Les Roses.
Paris, 1817-1824.
21 ¼” x 14 ¼” sheet, 25 ½” x 18 ½” framed.
These Large Paper Folio examples were finished by hand by the artist himself, Redoute. There are thought to be only a limited number of the large paper folio editions ever made, as few as five sets.
‘JOSEPHINE’ S ROSES’. ‘The technical execution of its production was... near perfect. The artistic quality of the plates is high, and there is no reason to mark it any lower than one would Les Liliacées and the Jardin de la Malmaison’ (Hunt Redoutéana p. 26). The plates in “Les Roses” have artistic value, and botanical and documentar y value, both for the species and cultivars still surviving and for those that have disappeared” [Sir George Taylor quoting Gisèle de la Roche in the Schutter facsimile, (Antwerp, 1974-78)].