Pierre Joseph Buchoz
Size: ~11 x 18 inches - Original Hand Colored Engravings
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These beautiful hand colored engravings have been selected from a French work entitled "Collection précieuse et enluminée des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses...Partie Ière. Plantes de la Chine peintes dans le pays" published in Paris, Lacombe, in 1776.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (27 January 1731, Metz - 13 January 1807) Paris was a French physician, lawyer and naturalist.Buc'hoz become a doctor of medicine in Nancy in 1763. He was devoted to botany, but was also interested in the treatment of melancholy and recommended music as therapy. He travelled throughout his native Lorraine and published a 13-volume Histoire naturelle of the province. Teaching botany as well, he was demonstrator at the Collège Royal des Médecins de Nancy. Author of many works of botany he also studied animals (in particular birds) and minerals.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (27 January 1731, Metz - 13 January 1807) Paris was a French physician, lawyer and naturalist.Buc'hoz become a doctor of medicine in Nancy in 1763. He was devoted to botany, but was also interested in the treatment of melancholy and recommended music as therapy. He travelled throughout his native Lorraine and published a 13-volume Histoire naturelle of the province. Teaching botany as well, he was demonstrator at the Collège Royal des Médecins de Nancy. Author of many works of botany he also studied animals (in particular birds) and minerals.
An extremely rare and attractive work, not described in Hunt, Stafleu or Great Flower Books, and with no copy in either the Plesch or de Belder collections.
Buchoz was the first European to copy the oriental style and aimed this work not just at naturalists and painters, but also at porcelain and textile manufacturers. The first volume, in which the highly decorative plates are captioned in Chinese characters, is devoted to flowers native to China, many featuring birds, butterflies and insects, with pale blue skies and rocky backgrounds.
The second volume illustrates in a similar style flowers grown in the gardens of Europe.
Buchoz was the first European to copy the oriental style and aimed this work not just at naturalists and painters, but also at porcelain and textile manufacturers. The first volume, in which the highly decorative plates are captioned in Chinese characters, is devoted to flowers native to China, many featuring birds, butterflies and insects, with pale blue skies and rocky backgrounds.
The second volume illustrates in a similar style flowers grown in the gardens of Europe.