| 內容簡介 | No flower painter has so linked his name and immortality with a single genus as has Redoute with the rose. The three-volume Les Roses is Redoute's most famous work, and its 170 hand-colored plates the most frequently reproduced of all botanical illustrations. Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) was born into a family of Belgian painters, and at the age of 23 left for Paris to pursue his studies. He ultimately served as drawing master to the queens and princesses of France for half a century, from Marie Antoinette to Marie Amelie. Many of the paintings for Les Roses were made from the hundreds of varieties in the Empress Josephine's rose garden at Malmaison. This Octavo Edition reproduces one of only five copies printed in large folio format on velin paper, with a double set of plates, plain and colored, and includes, for the first time, a complete English translation.<摘錄自媒體封面或內頁> |