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Language
  
French

Originally published
  
1827

Illustrator
  
Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Publication date
  
1827

Author
  
Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Country
  
France

Choix des plus belles fleurs

Publisher
  
Ernest Panckoucke, Paris

Similar
  
Pierre-Joseph Redouté books, Botany books

Choix des plus belles fleurs (The most beautiful flowers and fruits) is a book of watercolor drawings by the French artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté. It has 144 drawings in color reproduced copperplates.

Description

The full title is in French Choix des plus belles fleurs et de quelques branches of plus beaux fruits. Dédié à LL. AA. RR. les princesses Louise et Marie d'Orléans (1827). A folio edition was printed with color pages in Paris in 1827.

From May 1827 to June 1833 144 special pages were printed with pictures. The work consisted of 36 parts, each of four pictures of flowers, flowering trees or fruits contained.

Redouté worked for half a century as an art teacher for French queens and princesses. He dedicated the book of beautiful flowers and fruits to his pupils Louise and Princess Marie of Orléans.

References

Choix des plus belles fleurs Wikipedia