Adorn your interior spaces with the elegance of French botany from the 19th century with this stunning reproduction of the illustration of the Waved-Flowered Cornflag (Gladiolus Undulatus). Originally produced from 1802 to 1816 within Redouté’s world-famous series Les Liliacées, this print depicts the graceful white and pastel pink blossoms of the wild gladiolus with exquisite realism.Pierre-Joseph Redouté was famously known as the “Raphael of Flowers” due to his status as an official artist to the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, and his documentation of the exotic gardens at Chateau de Malmaison for Empress Joséphine Bonaparte. It is specifically through this particular botanical painting that you can see the mastery of Redouté’s stipple engraving style.
