Tradescantia virginica — Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Tradescantia virginica

1802/1816

Dating
Date range
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
watercolor and graphite on vellum
Dimensions
framed: 50.8 × 63.5 cm (20 × 25 in.) sheet: 47.8 × 34.4 cm (18 13/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
Collection no.
2023.134.7
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Tradescantia virginica. Pierre-Joseph Redouté; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Roger and Barbara Ditman. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

Tradescantia virginica — Pierre Joseph Redouté. 1802/1816.

Medium: watercolor and graphite on vellum.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): framed: 50.8 × 63.5 cm (20 × 25 in.) sheet: 47.8 × 34.4 cm (18 13/16 × 13 9/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2023.134.7. Gift of Roger and Barbara Ditman.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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