Henriette Antoinette Vincent

Collection de 24 Bouquets de Fleurs. Paris: Lambert, 1835

FIRST EDITION, 4to (270 x 207mm.), hand-coloured engraved title, 24 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colour and finished by hand, contemporary calf-backed boards, marbled endpapers, extremities rubbed

A fir🌟st edition of this very rare work on flowers by Henriette Vincent (1786-1834), who studied painting in Paris under the tutelage of the esteemed flower painters and French court artists Gerard van Spaendonck and Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Hunt praises this book in superlative terms, as a work of "comsummate loveliness" (p. 34) which enhances the reputation of French floral painters of the era in general.

LITERATURE:

cf. Dunthorne 322