Pierre-Joseph Redouté, was a painter and botanist from the Austrian Netherlands, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de Malmaison, many of which were published
Portrait by Louis Léopold Boilly
The fountain erected in honour of Pierre-Joseph Redouté in Saint-Hubert, Belgium.
Botanical illustration of Lilium superbum
Julie Ribault, Redoute's school of botanical drawing in the Salle Buffon of the Jardin des Plantes, 1830 (Fitzwilliam Museum)
The Château de Malmaison is a French château situated near the left bank of the Seine, about 15 kilometres west of the centre of Paris, in the commune of Rueil-Malmaison.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté
…1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from the Austrian Netherlands, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de Malmaison, many of which were published as large coloured stipple engravings. He was nicknamed "the Raphael of flowers" and has been called the greatest botanical…
Joséphine de Beauharnais at Malmaison in 1801 by François Gérard
Napoleon Crossing the Alps, a painting by Jacques-Louis David from the Malmaison collection
View of the southwest facade of the Manor House