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LEDOULX, Pierre- François (1730-1807)
Xeranthemum annuum; Amaranthus cruentus and Tragopogon porrifolius signed (lower right) and inscribed in brown ink (lower margin) '1. Amaranthoides. 2. Xeranthemum annuum élernuelles (sic.), ou perpétuelles annùelles. dites immortelles raisonnées. 3 Amaranthoides indica 4 autre espèce de perpetuelle 5 amaranthoides de diverses Couleur 6 elernuelles [sic.], dites Strooblommen.', numbered '1'-'6' beside each image.
Water-colour and gouache. Sheet size: 23½ x 18½ inches. Framed and glazed. Provenance: Baron Joseph van Huerne (gift to his grandson) - Joseph de Pelichy - Eyre & Hobhouse (exhibition: The Discovery of Nature, London 1983, item 59).
A finely balanced and very accomplished work, the work of the Flemish botanical artist Ledoulx and taken from a compilation of drawings made by Baron Joseph van Huerne in Belgium between about 1790 and 1820. This compilation certainly included 135 (and probably about 170) original watercolour and gouache drawings bound in four albums, each with a manuscript title page 'Collection du Regne Vegetal, Arbres Forestiers et Fruitiers, leurs Fruits. &c' He employed the talents of at least five different artists. A secondary inscription notes the presentation of the albums 'Donné par son grand-Père mons. J. van Huerne à Joseph de Pelichy le 9 Avril 1831'. The albums subsequent history is unclear, but currently Mrs Paul Mellon's Oak Spring Garden Library has one volume [Oak Spring Sylva 4] and the Royal Horticultural Society in London have two volumes. The fourth volume, from which the present drawing comes, was broken up and dispersed some time before 1983, and the current locations of the other individual drawings are not known, but a selection were exhibited by Eyre & Hobhouse in London in 1983.
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