The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
Rosa Centifolia
The cabbage rose, by the greatest botanical painter who ever lived.
- Work
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Rosa centifolia, from Les Roses
- Artist / creator
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté (French/Belgian, 1759–1840)
- Origin & date
- Les Roses, Paris, 1817–1824
- Held by
- Les Roses (1817–1824)
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 30x40 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
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.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Les Roses (1817–1824)’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
