Mouse Garlic

By Pierre-Joseph Redouté

This stunning botanical engraving beautifully portrays the restrained elegance of Allium Angulosum, better known as Mouse Garlic, drawn by none other than Pierre-Joseph Redouté, the pre-eminent artist of botanical illustration. The original drawing was created for Redouté's seminal work “Les Liliacées,” which displays the artist’s amazing ability to combine scientific accuracy with sheer visual splendor. Here we see the narrow angular stem, along with the gentle cluster of pinkish-lilac flowers.

Ideal for those who love natural history illustrations of the Enlightenment period and superb botanical prints, this artwork is a stunning example of stipple engraving, an artistic style mastered by Redouté.