Crown Imperial (Fritillaria imperialis), from Les Liliacées

1802–16

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Colored stipple engraving
Dimensions: 21 1/4 × 14 1/8 in. (54 × 35.9 cm) Framed: 25 1/2 × 18 7/16 in. (64.8 × 46.8 cm)
Collection no.: 2018.587.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Crown Imperial (Fritillaria imperialis), from Les Liliacées. Pierre-Joseph Redouté; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Kathy and Michael Mouron, in honor of W. Graham Arader III, 2018. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Crown Imperial (Fritillaria imperialis), from Les Liliacées — Pierre-Joseph Redouté. 1802–16.

Medium: Colored stipple engraving. Dimensions: 21 1/4 × 14 1/8 in. (54 × 35.9 cm) Framed: 25 1/2 × 18 7/16 in. (64.8 × 46.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Kathy and Michael Mouron, in honor of W. Graham Arader III, 2018.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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