Pierre-Joseph Redouté facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Pierre-Joseph Redouté
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![]() Portrait by Louis Léopold Boilly
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Born | Saint-Hubert, Belgium
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10 July 1759
Died | 19 June 1840 Paris, France
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(aged 80)
Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
Nationality | Belgian |
Education | Jardin du Roi |
Known for | Botanical illustration |
Movement | Flower painting |
Awards | Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (1825) |
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from the Southern Netherlands. He is known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers. He was nicknamed "the Raphael of flowers" and has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time. Many of the species he painted had never been illustrated before.
He was an official court artist of Queen Marie Antoinette, and he continued painting through the French Revolution and Reign of Terror.
For fifty years, Redouté was the drawing teacher to French queens and princesses. He dedicated Choix des plus belles fleurs to two of his students, Louise and Marie d’Orléans. Later, Marie d’Orléans became the first queen of the Belgians.
Images for kids
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Botanical illustration of Lilium superbum
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Julie Ribault, Redoute's school of botanical drawing in the Salle Buffon of the Jardin des Plantes, 1830 (Fitzwilliam Museum)
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