1809
watercolor
vellum
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Iris Swertii is a 1809 watercolor by Pierre Joseph Redouté, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a single iris flower in soft purple and white. The petals are delicate, with faint dark veins. Below, two long green leaves grow from a tall stem. In the corner, tiny sketches of buds and seed pods are drawn. The artist focused on the iris’s details—like the way light hits the petals. This style was popular in the early 1800s for studying plants. Next, check out watercolor, glazing to see how artists build color layer by layer.
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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