The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 30, 2023

Les Liliacées: Ornithogalum longibracteatum

1802–16

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

(French, 1759–1840)

France, 19th century

Stipple and line engraving, with hand coloring

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of Arnold M. Davis 1955.327

Catalogue raisonné: Beraldi Vol. XI. 178 ; Dunthorne 228.231

Location

not on view

Description

Although best known for Les Roses, perhaps Redouté’s most beautiful work is Les Liliacées, which is devoted to the lily family—plants that grow from bulbs, corms, or tubers.

Exhibition history

Flower and Fruit Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 25-October 10, 1960).

Flower Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 7-June 6, 1965).

The Flowering of the Botanical Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1955.327