Gloriosa Superba
Pierre-Joseph Redouté, early 19th century
$270
Print check at 18 x 24 in: 152 dpi, good. Trimmed 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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Pierre-Joseph Redouté was court botanical artist to Queen Marie Antoinette and, later, official flower painter to Empress Joséphine at Malmaison — the most celebrated botanical illustrator of his age. Here his stipple-engraving technique renders Gloriosa superba, the climbing lily, with the anatomical precision of a scientific record and the grace of a portrait: each recurved, flame-colored petal separately observed, the tendrilled leaf-tips caught mid-reach. Redouté worked from live specimens in the royal and imperial gardens, cross-referencing each plate against the emerging Linnaean system his botanist collaborators were codifying. What to notice: the plate is unsigned by color alone — his ink comes from dozens of separately inked and wiped copper plates, a technique he helped pioneer. It is less a flower than a record of looking closely enough to love something.
- Maker
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté
- Date
- early 19th century
- 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-00242
| Picture | 18 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 19.6 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 10 in | 352 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.4% |
| 11 x 14 in | 256 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.6% |
| 12 x 16 in | 228 | Excellent | Trimmed 3% |
| 16 x 20 in | 176 | Good | Trimmed 3.4% |
| 18 x 24 in | 152 | Good | Trimmed 3% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 117 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 76 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,822 x 3,650 px, srgb, sRGB.icc
- Tone
- Darks 164, lights 242 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 2.03
- Notes
- Narrow tonal range (28 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
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