Redouté, Pierre-Joseph. "Wild or Red-flowered Banana". Prepared for Les Liliacées, ca. 1802-1816. bayer_11_17 uncertain and expensive overland routes

uncertain and expensive overland routes we call the Silk Road

engraved by Albert Schut

or Bachmann

Auctore Hieron Chiaues

PROVENANCE: Near contemporary ownership inscription of F Ollivier on the recto of each first blank

Redouté, Pierre-Joseph. "Wild or Red-flowered Banana". Prepared for Les Liliacées, ca. 1802-1816. bayer_11_17 uncertain and expensive overland routesPierre Joseph Redout Watercolor for plate 308: "Wild or Red flowered Banana" Musa coccinea Prepared for Les Liliaces ca. 1802 1816 Watercolor and graphite on vellum Signed 'P. J. Redoute' lower left 18 7 8" x 13 1 2" vellum, 29 1 2" x 24 1 2" framed Provenance: Acquired from the artist by the Empress Josphine; Prince Eugne de Beauharnais; by descent through the Dukes of Leuchtenberg; Bibliothque Eugne de Beauharnais; Braus Riggenbach and Ulrico Hoepli