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AUBRIET, Claude.
Two Studies of "Ghandirobe vel Nhandirboe"
From the same album as a drawing of the same size of the "Mirabilis Dichotoma" plant in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (see Scrase, Cambridge 1997, cat. no. 15) as well as similar sheets in the Lindley Library, The Horticultural Society, London (Blunt/Stream, Suffolk 1994, pp.116/117, chapt. 9, ill. in colour pl. 29/30) "In the seventeenth century one of the main centres of flower drawing was Paris, where Nicolas Robert's works inspired Louis XIV to commission a series of botanical paintings on vellum, known as Les Velins du Roi. Robert painted twenty of these a year for the King, a tradition maintained by his successors including Claude Aubriet... ".(Scrase, p.2) "... (Aubriet) moved to Paris where he worked with Jean Joubert (active c. 1688 - 1706) in the production of the Velins du Roi .... In 1701/2 Aubriet accompanied Tournefort as a draughtsman on a journey to the Aegean and the Black Sea, resulting in the introduction of a number of new plants to Western Europe. ... In 1706 he succeeded Jean Joubert as the official painter at the Jardin du Roi, a post he held until his death. ..." (Scrase, p. 36)."These illustrations, made no doubt under Tournefort's direct supervision, are remarkable for the accuracy of their dissections" (Blunt/Stearn, p. 116).
Bodycolour, watercolour, heightened with white on prepared vellum (448 × 306 mm) bordered on all sides in gold.Captioned; Ghandirobe vel Nhandiroboe/Brasiliensibus Maregr. Hist. Planta. 47. semen in ambitu detatum. and. Nahandrioboe scandentis, foliis Hederaceis, angulosis fructus ex Plumerio. Very good, framed and glazed.
