Les Liliacées:  Ornithogalum longibracteatum

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.

Provenance

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Les Liliacées: Ornithogalum longibracteatum

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

1802–16

Accession Number

1955.327

Medium

stipple and line engraving, with hand coloring

Dimensions

N/A

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

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