Framed Botanical Fruit Prints – Abricot-Pêche & Pourprée Hâtive Peach
$ 26.4
Description
Framed Botanical Fruit Prints – Abricot-Pêche & Pourprée Hâtive Peach. • Pourprée hâtive (Early Purple Peach): Branch with ripe peach, halved fruit showing the pit, and flowers. For sale is a beautiful coordinated pair of hand-colored botanical engravings featuring classic French stone fruit varieties. For sale is a beautiful coordinated pair of hand-colored botanical engravings featuring classic French stone fruit varieties: • Abricot-pêche (Apricot-Peach hybrid): Branch with leaves and fruit, cross-section, seed, and blossoms. • Pourprée hâtive (Early Purple Peach): Branch with ripe peach, halved fruit showing the pit, and flowers. Both prints are from the renowned 18th/19th-century French work Traité des Arbres Fruitiers by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, with plates in the style of Pierre-Antoine Poiteau. They include the original French titles and period publisher references (e.g., “De l’Imprimerie de Langlois”). Framing Details (Identical for Both): • Rich dark reddish-brown mahogany-style wooden frames with gold inner liners • Multi-layered matting with elegant marbled decorative inner borders • Glass front, professionally framed and ready to hang Condition: • Excellent overall – vibrant hand-coloring with no noticeable fading • Prints are clean with no tears or foxing • Frames show only very light normal shelf wear • Glass is clear These make a stunning matched set for a kitchen, dining room, breakfast nook, or home library. They are high-quality reproductions (Bonaparte Art Publishing style) of the famous French horticultural illustrations that remain popular with collectors of botanical fruit art.
