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  • SRitchieable May 4, 2012 @ 9:09 pm | delete
    I love your lens - I've featured it on my lens "Quiz: Napoleon, man & myth" under the section on Josephine. Thanks for sharing!
  • daria369 Aug 28, 2011 @ 9:43 am | delete
    Beautiful lens and a great resource. Blessed! :)
  • scar4 Oct 22, 2010 @ 8:17 pm | delete
    Thank you for the informative lens. It brings me to a whole new world - the botanical art~ thumbs up!
  • makingamark Apr 4, 2010 @ 5:56 am | delete
    It's almost certainly a reproduction which means it could have been produced anytime. Try using a search engine to track down the original
  • Steven Apr 4, 2010 @ 5:35 am | delete
    I have just acquired a small chest with the title rosa pompania with P. J. Redoute signature thereon. Please could someone help date it or give a little infor thereon? It looks like a print incorporated into the design of the chest.
    Many thanx
  • makingamark Oct 15, 2009 @ 7:22 pm | delete
    JoAnn - I can tell you that every single Redoute print I have ever seen has been signed - but all have been reproduced as facsimiles of the original artwork. Giclee printers are now very good at producing facsimiles and it's entirely possible that you have bought a good reproduction.

    Any good gallery specialising in antique prints - ideally botanical art prints - should be able to tell you whether you've bought an original print or a modern reproduction.
  • art Dec 11, 2009 @ 11:15 pm | delete
    I beleive i may have an original print my mother purchased it about 40 years ago but I can't find a copy of his signiture to compare my signiture . Thank you
  • makingamark Jul 25, 2010 @ 6:06 am | delete
    you need to check out the links to reproductions online and books about his work - you'll find his signature on those.
  • JoAnn Brewer Oct 15, 2009 @ 6:12 pm | delete
    I was at Good Will today and bought a picture that I thought would look good in my antique bedroom I am putting together. It is signed by PJ Redoute. I looked it up on the internet and found that he was a famous artist and this print was first done on 1863. It was priced at $273. I guess that was for the original one. Like I said, the one I have is signed. What can you tell me about it?
    Thanks, JoAnn
  • Mona Jul 24, 2010 @ 10:17 pm | delete
    Hi JoAnn Brewer
    Did you find out if your painting is original or not? I also have a painting framed in very old wood and have faded old paper bag like paper at back of picture. Everything is deteorating naturally. Very thin glass covering picture and surrounding material around picture is also deteorating and it is signed! I found old 1800 books in my addic along with this picture...
    Thanks You.
  • makingamark Jul 25, 2010 @ 6:01 am | delete
    When the framing, backing and support for drawing is all deteriorating it just means that the materials are old and not archival. It does NOT mean that the picture is valuable.

    All reproductions of Redoute's work are signed - but that doesn't make the work original.

    The best thing to do if you think you may have an original print by a famous artist is go to a reputable dealer in antique fine art prints (that means they won't be cheap!) and/or am Antique Print Fair (again nothing will be cheap). Take you rpint with you and see what they have to say.

    Bear in mind that most prints people think are originals are just good reproductions.
  • TheWhistler Mar 23, 2009 @ 2:18 pm | delete
    Thanks for the lens, very informative.

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