Pierre Joseph Redouté Auction Prices and Value Guide
Pierre Joseph Redouté auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 3,143 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Pierre Joseph Redouté auction prices: quick answer
Pierre Joseph Redouté auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Pierre Joseph Redouté
- Source records
- 3,143
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Artist context
About Pierre Joseph Redouté
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840) was a Belgian-born botanical illustrator and painter who spent most of his career in France. Born in Saint-Hubert in the Austrian Netherlands, he became one of the most celebrated botanical artists in history, earning the nickname "the Raphael of flowers." He served as court painter and official botanical draftsman to both Queen Marie Antoinette and later the Empress Joséphine at the Château de Malmaison, where he documented her extensive gardens. Redouté is best known for his landmark publications Les Liliacées (1802–1816) and Les Roses (1817–1824), which remain benchmarks of botanical art. Working primarily in watercolour and stipple engraving, he brought scientific precision and artistic elegance to every plate. His work is held in major institutional collections worldwide.
Botanical illustrationWatercolourStipple engravingLithographyGouacheRosesLiliesBotanical specimens
Common works and media
Collectors and appraisers most often encounter Redouté through hand-coloured stipple engravings of roses, lilies, and other flowering plants, originally published as folio plates in Les Roses and Les Liliacées. Other common formats include original watercolour and gouache botanical drawings, lithographic botanical prints, and engraved plate pages extracted or bound from his published volumes. Bound first editions of his major works occasionally appear at auction as complete books.
Market and appraisal context
Pierre-Joseph Redouté maintains one of the most liquid and actively traded markets of any botanical artist. Appraisily's auction-record index tracks 52 lots spanning 2003 to late 2024, with 31 carrying realized prices. The price distribution is wide but informative: the low end sits at approximately $40 for later reproductions and prints-after, the 25th percentile is around $400 for standard hand-coloured engravings, the median nears $1,560, and the 75th percentile reaches $6,875. The ceiling at $50,000 reflects premium original watercolour drawings and exceptional-condition first-edition plates. Major houses handling Redouté include Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams, and a long tail of specialist and regional auctioneers (Neal Auction Company, Arader Galleries, Weschler's, Kunsthaus Lempertz, among others). Liquidity is strong in Europe and North America, with EUR- and GBP-denominated sales common alongside USD. The trailing twelve months show no priced lots in Appraisily's recent sample, though the prior twelve months recorded six, indicating the market is active but seasonal and spread across many houses rather than concentrated.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Watercolour
- Stipple engraving
- Lithography
- Gouache
- Hand-coloured engraving
Value drivers
- Original watercolour drawings command the highest premiums
- Stipple engravings from Les Roses and Les Liliacées are the most commonly encountered works at auction
- Condition, hand-colouring quality, plate marks, and provenance strongly affect value
- Edition size and whether a print is from a first or later printing can materially affect price
- Medium is the primary value driver: original watercolour or gouache drawings command multiples over even the finest hand-coloured engravings.
- Publication source matters: plates from Les Roses and Les Liliacées carry the strongest collector recognition and price premiums.
Appraisal caveats
- Redouté prints have been widely reproduced; collectors should verify age, printing method, and hand-colouring before attributing high value.
- The extremely large number of recorded lots (over 3,000 in Invaluable) means the market is well-supplied and individual print values vary widely by quality and rarity.
- Redouté's plates have been reproduced continuously for over two centuries; many works encountered at lower price points are later reprints, photographic reproductions, or prints-after rather than period hand-coloured engravings.
- The trailing twelve months show zero priced lots in the Appraisily recent sample, which may reflect reporting lag rather than a true market pause—the prior year had six lots, suggesting ongoing activity.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- Wikidata library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Library of Congress library authority
- RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History library authority
- VIAF (OCLC) library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
Data basis
This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.
Artist value FAQ
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