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This painting shows a bouquet of flowers with tall white and light-blue blossoms at the top, accompanied by wide green leaves and darker purple and blue flowers towards the bottom. A small orange and white butterfly rests on one of the large green leaves towards the bottom left, and a few other small brown bugs rest on leaves and stems. The background is plain, off-white paper, with a dark brown rectangular border.
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This painting shows a bouquet of flowers with tall white and light-blue blossoms at the top, accompanied by wide green leaves and darker purple and blue flowers towards the bottom. A small orange and white butterfly rests on one of the large green leaves towards the bottom left, and a few other small brown bugs rest on leaves and stems. The background is plain, off-white paper, with a dark brown rectangular border.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Bouquet of Flowers with Insects

Pierre Joseph Redouté

Medium
watercolor over traces of graphite with gold on vellum; laid down
Dimensions
sheet: 25.3 x 17.2 cm (9 15/16 x 6 3/4 in.) support: 28.3 x 22.3 cm (11 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1988.12.1
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1751 to 1775
Department
CG-E
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Subjects and terms

  • French
  • Flower
  • still life
  • still
  • Insect
Inscription

recto: on sheet, at lower left in brown ink: P. J. Redoute pinx; on mount, at lower right, in brown ink, in later hand: 7; verso: none

Marks

none

NGA object ID 70319. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.