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January 02, 2006: Redoute on Exhibit at New York Botanical Garden
"From the herbarium I wandered upstairs into the William D. Rondina and Giovanni Foroni LoFaro Gallery, where there is (through Jan. 22) a luxurious show about the French botanical illustrator Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Redouté, who inspired Audubon, learned from Dutch still life artists, and was the draftsman to Marie Antoinette. He produced books of roses and lilies from Empress Joséphine's Château Malmaison that are among the greatest of all botanical illustrations. Many of these come from the library's own rare book collection."
