Rosa Gallica Aurelianensis
A French rose from Redouté's Les Roses, the definitive rose portrait book.
- Work
- Rosa Gallica Aurelianensis, 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
Another plate from Les Roses, Redouté's three-volume, 170-plate survey that remains the standard against which every later rose illustration is measured. Rosa gallica — the old French rose, ancestor to most modern garden roses through centuries of cultivated crossing — appears here in full spray, its densely layered petals and toothed foliage rendered with the same patient, plate-by-plate stipple-engraving process Redouté used throughout his career. What to notice: Redouté worked at the exact historical moment horticulturists were beginning to systematically hybridize roses into the thousands of modern cultivars that followed — Les Roses is as much a record of that turning point as it is a portrait book, cataloguing a genus on the edge of being remade by human hands.
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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