Erica Fulgida
Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1813
$235
Print check at 16 x 24 in: 153 dpi, good. Trimmed 1.3% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Dated 1813, this plate belongs to Redouté's late imperial period, when his patron Empress Joséphine's collection of heaths (Erica) at Malmaison was among the most extensive in Europe — an obsession that outlived her marriage to Napoleon and, briefly, outlived the empire itself. Erica fulgida's tubular, glowing blossoms cluster along a single woody stem, rendered in the same color stipple-engraving process Redouté used across his career: layers of separately inked plates built up like watercolor, never a single flat block of color. What to notice: the plate isolates one small stem against bare paper — no ground, no setting, nothing to distract from the plant's own architecture. It is a specimen study elevated to portraiture, the same reverence a naturalist gives a species and a painter gives a face.
- Maker
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté
- Date
- 1813
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Credit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00243
| Picture | 16 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 25.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 306 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.3% |
| 12 x 16 in | 207 | Excellent | Trimmed 10% |
| 12 x 18 in | 204 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.3% |
| 16 x 24 in | 153 | Good | Trimmed 1.3% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 138 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 122 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 102 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 82 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 61 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,486 x 3,682 px, srgb, sRGB.icc
- Tone
- Darks 157, lights 242 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 5.71
- Notes
- Narrow tonal range (31 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
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