Musée No:325.280 Size:A4 - 297mm x 210mm Botanical Study - Penstemon Digitalis

Botanical Study - Penstemon Digitalis with a pale Grey Border

They were very much in love and he wrote every day but for Alice out of sight was out of mind and she didn’t open all of his letters

including his ‘Déjeuner sur l'herbe’ (yes THAT one at the Musée d'Orsay

Connecticut and his fruit and flower paintings were popular and purchased by area collectors

He trained in Antwerp then moved to Paris in the 1770s

Musée No:325.280 Size:A4 - 297mm x 210mm Botanical Study - Penstemon DigitalisLeaf Illustrational with Pale Neutral Border Artist: Pierre Joseph Redout Date: 1801 1819 Pierre Joseph Redout, (1759 1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison, many of which were published as large, colour stipple engravings. He was nicknamed "the Raphael of flowers" and has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time.