Redoute Primula Auricula. Lovely Primulas and butterfly, flowers print.

by Redouté, Pierre Joseph

Redouté pretty Primulas with butterflies botanical print.

Reproduction from a stipple engraving after a painting by 'the Raphael of flowers' Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) for his Choix des plus belles fleurs et des plus beaux fruits (Choice of the most beautiful flowers & fruit) originally published in Paris between 1827 and 1830.

Redoute painted exquisite watercolours on vellum for his employer Napoleon's Empress Josephine to record the plants and flowers in her extensive gardens at Malmaison outside Paris.

Size of this print is 13 x 10 inches or 33 x 25cm