1809
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Les Liliacées: Scilla amaena is a 1809 by Pierre Joseph Redouté, a Romanticism work, depicting Tulipa, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
Redouté painted delicate blue squill flowers reaching upward. Their petals glow soft against a plain white background. Tiny stamens balance the curve of each bloom. This is a print from a book about lilies. Redouté made 487 plates for Les Liliacées over 14 years. His work helped sell flowers and shaped how we still see them today. See more of his prints at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (French pronunciation: , 10 July 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…
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