Redouté was called “the Raphael of flowers,” court painter to two French queens, and his Les Roses is the most beautiful book of roses ever made. Here a single cabbage rose — Rosa centifolia, the “hundred-leaved” rose — is given the full weight of a portrait: the heavy, many-petalled bloom bending its stem, a bud beside it, every leaf and thorn exact, floated on the bare white page. He achieved those luminous, translucent petals with a refined stipple-engraving technique printed in colour and finished by hand. It is botany raised to the level of high art — rigorous enough for a scientist, ravishing enough for a queen’s library. The definitive rose.

Maker: Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759 to 1840)
Date: 1817–1824
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: Les Roses
Credit: Les Roses · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00668

As chosen: 18 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	584	Excellent	Trimmed 5.7%
12 x 16 in	413	Excellent	Trimmed 5.8%
12 x 18 in	389	Excellent	Trimmed 5.7%
16 x 24 in	292	Excellent	Trimmed 5.7%
18 x 24 in	275	Excellent	Trimmed 5.8%
20 x 30 in	233	Excellent	Trimmed 5.7%
24 x 36 in	194	Good	Trimmed 5.7%
30 x 40 in	165	Good	Trimmed 5.8%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
36 x 48 in	137 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	116 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

4,959 x 7,017 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 123, lights 232 of 255; 4% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

15.98

Notes

Pure white on 4% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
A plain margin is part of the file (5% of an edge): it prints as part of the picture

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