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Orenco Originals Counted Cross Stitch Chart, Pattern, Graph

Inspired by Pierre-Joseph Redouté Illustration of Bouquet of Carnation Flowers  Counted Cross Stitch Pattern

About This Chart

Its finished size will be: 12 inches (168 stitches) by 14 inches (196 stitches)

Designed for 14 Count Fabric and DMC Cotton Floss

Suggested Fabric Color White or Ivory

Note to Stitchers: You will receive a chart that is of the entire image including the background.  You can stitch the background or stitch on your choice of a 14 - count solid cloth and create a raised embossed effect.

This is not a Kit. No fabric or floss are included in this auction.

Pierre-Joseph Redouté 1759 -1840, was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolors of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers". He was an official court artist of Queen Marie Antoinette, and he continued painting through the French Revolution and Reign of Terror. Redouté survived the turbulent political upheaval to gain international recognition for his precise renderings of plants, which remain as fresh in the early 21st century as when first painted. Paris was the cultural and scientific center of Europe during an outstanding period in botanical illustration (1798 -1837), one noted for the publication of several folio books with colored plates. Enthusiastically, Redouté became an heir to the tradition of the Flemish and Dutch flower painters Brueghel, Ruysch, van Huysum and de Heem. Redouté contributed over 2,100 published plates depicting over 1,800 different species, many never rendered before.