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Rosa Centifolia (Cabbage Rose)
Maria Sibylle Werner · 1712
- Medium
- Watercolour and gouache on vellum
- Dimensions
- 42 × 34 cm
Werner spent six months in the Netherlands studying the Rosa centifolia at the peak of its bloom, making thirty preliminary studies before this final sheet. The painting served both as scientific record and as an act of devotion to a flower she considered "the most architecturally complex object in nature."
Rights & provenance
- Rights basis
- human original
- Copyright
- Maria Sibylle Werner
- Licence
- all rights reserved
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