Rosa Damascena Aurora
A damask rose from Redouté's Les Roses — the flower that outlived an empire.
- Work
- Rosa Damascena Aurora, from Les Roses
- Artist / naturalist
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté
- Origin & date
- France, 1817–1824
- Held by
- Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and keep.
Size
$19.00
The story
From Les Roses (1817–1824), Redouté's late-career survey of every rose then cultivated in Europe, painted after Empress Joséphine's death from the collection she built at Malmaison — by then the finest rose garden on the continent, and the reason the empress is still credited with popularizing the genre. This damask variety is rendered with the same stipple-engraving precision Redouté brought to every plate: layered ink passes standing in for watercolor, built up petal by petal rather than laid down as flat color. What to notice: unlike the single specimen studies of his earlier work, Les Roses often groups a full flowering spray — bud, half-bloom, and full bloom on one stem, a small botanical timeline of a single rose's life. Joséphine never lived to see the finished volumes; Redouté completed them as her memorial as much as her patron's legacy.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Wikimedia Commons’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper: smooth, no glare.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
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