Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Cabbage Rose (Rosa centifolia)
1827
Gallery · Haeckel, Audubon, Redouté, Merian
Belgian-French botanical painter and printmaker, court artist to Marie Antoinette and the Empress Joséphine, known as the Raphael of flowers. His albums Les Liliacées and Les Roses, executed in colour stipple engraving, are regarded as the summit of botanical illustration.