A Magnificent Original Watercolor Featuring a Cabbage Rose by Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)

Rosa Centifolia Prolifera Foliacea

14 7/8 by 10 1/2 inches

Framed: 17 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches

Watercolor and gouache over pencil on vellum

Signed in pencil lower left: P.J. Redouté

$485,000

Provenance:

Princess Maria Carolina Luisa de Bourbon, Duchesse de Berry, for whom purchased from the artist in 1828 by King Charles X of France and Navarre; thence by descent in the Orleans family to Clementine, Princess of Orleans; thence by descent to Prince August of Saxe-Coburg; gifted to his brother Ferdinand of Bulgaria in 1907; W. Graham Arader III, New York