1820
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Pasture Rose (Rosa Carolina Corymbosa) is a 1820 by Pierre Joseph Redouté, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a single pink rose with five soft petals, a few buds, and bright green leaves against a plain background. Redouté painted flowers for science books, not just pretty pictures. He worked for Marie Antoinette and later for Napoleon’s wife, Josephine, who loved roses. This rose is wild—it grows in American fields, not fancy gardens. If you like how light and exact the petals look, try the technique called *sfumato*. It’s how artists blur edges so things feel real.
Born in Belgium, Pierre-Joseph Redouté was trained by his father and began a ten-year career as an itinerant artist at age 13. He joined his brother in Paris working on theater sets and decorations, but his true love was flower painting, such as this drawing. Redouté achieved an international reputation for his botanical illustrations and enjoyed a long, successful career.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté's life ended at age 81, when he had a stroke while examining a lily.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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