Another plate from Les Roses, Redouté's three-volume, 170-plate survey that remains the standard against which every later rose illustration is measured. Rosa gallica — the old French rose, ancestor to most modern garden roses through centuries of cultivated crossing — appears here in full spray, its densely layered petals and toothed foliage rendered with the same patient, plate-by-plate stipple-engraving process Redouté used throughout his career. What to notice: Redouté worked at the exact historical moment horticulturists were beginning to systematically hybridize roses into the thousands of modern cultivars that followed — Les Roses is as much a record of that turning point as it is a portrait book, cataloguing a genus on the edge of being remade by human hands.

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-00248

As chosen: 12 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	12 x 16 in
Outside size	13.6 x 17.6 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 10 in	240	Excellent	Trimmed 3.1%
11 x 14 in	174	Good	Trimmed 1.3%
12 x 16 in	154	Good	Trimmed 3.3%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
12 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
16 x 20 in	120 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
18 x 24 in	103 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
24 x 30 in	80 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
30 x 40 in	61 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	51 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 1,920 x 2,476 px, srgb, c2
Tone: Darks 66, lights 233 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 5.78