Rosa Damascena Aurora
Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1817–1824
$123
Print check at 11 x 14 in: 153 dpi, good. Trimmed 2.4% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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From Les Roses (1817–1824), Redouté's late-career survey of every rose then cultivated in Europe, painted after Empress Joséphine's death from the collection she built at Malmaison — by then the finest rose garden on the continent, and the reason the empress is still credited with popularizing the genre. This damask variety is rendered with the same stipple-engraving precision Redouté brought to every plate: layered ink passes standing in for watercolor, built up petal by petal rather than laid down as flat color. What to notice: unlike the single specimen studies of his earlier work, Les Roses often groups a full flowering spray — bud, half-bloom, and full bloom on one stem, a small botanical timeline of a single rose's life. Joséphine never lived to see the finished volumes; Redouté completed them as her memorial as much as her patron's legacy.
- Maker
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté
- Date
- 1817–1824
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00247
| Picture | 11 x 14 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 12.6 x 15.6 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 | 210 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.1% |
| 11 x 14 in | 153 | Good | Trimmed 2.4% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | 137 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 105 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 45 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,687 x 2,200 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1
- Tone
- Darks 58, lights 233 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 5.03
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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