Tradescantia virginica

Provenance

Empress Joséphine Bonaparte (1763-1814), Château de Malmaison; by descent to her son, Prince Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (1781-1824), later Duke of Leuchtenberg, Seeon-Seebruck; by descent with the Dukes of Leuchtenberg, Seeon-Seebruck;(Braus-Riggenbach and Ulrico Hoepli, Zurich, 23-24 May 1935, lot 82); (Erhard Weyhe, New York); by descent to a private family trust; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 November 1985, lot 95); (Arader Galleries, New York); Roger and Barbara Ditman, New York; gift to National Gallery of Art, 2023.

Tradescantia virginica

Redouté, Pierre Joseph

1802/1816

Accession Number

2023.134.7

Medium

watercolor and graphite on vellum

Dimensions

framed: 50.8 × 63.5 cm (20 × 25 in.) | sheet: 47.8 × 34.4 cm (18 13/16 × 13 9/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Roger and Barbara Ditman