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| | Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840): an exhibit in the rare book room of The Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, Ohio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Fortunately, Pierre Joseph and his younger brother, Henri Joseph, obtained new employment at this time painting the botanical vellums for the Muséum - thanks to the influence of Gerard von Spaendonck, the professor of flower painting at the Muséum, who was Pierre's teacher; and René Louiche Desfontaines, who was professor of botany there. |
 | | Desfontaines, having been aware of Redouté's succulent paintings, undertook to put him in contact with the young Swiss botanist, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, who was then a student at the Jardin. |
 | | This resulted in their collaboration to produce the Plantarum historia succulentorum or Histoire des plantes Grasses published from 1799 to 1805. |
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