Pierre-Joseph Redouté Museum

The museum cherishes the memory of the man dubbed the ‘Raphael of flowers’ and renowned worldwide for his roses.Pierre-Joseph, famous painter-aquarellist, was born in Saint-Hubert in 1759. At the age of 23, he left his hometown and moved to Paris. There he produced plates of plants and flowers (lilies, roses,...-for the most famous botanists of his time (‘L'Héritier’, ‘Candolles’...). In 1783, he will be attached to the King's collection of velines. This collection will have a place in the Botanical Garden that will become the Natural History Museum. Among his pupils we find Queen Marie-Antoinette, Empress Joséphine, wife of Napoleon I and Louise-Marie of Orleans, the first queen of the Belgians, wife of Leopold I. In 1840, Pierre-Joseph Redouté died in debt and poverty, despite his fame. His body rests in the cemetery of Père Lachaise in Paris.Numerous original works, prints and objects are on display at the museum, as well as engravings from the ‘Description of Egypt’ (Henri-Joseph Redouté - painter-zoologist, and brother of the famous watercolourist).