The Burgundy Rose

Rosa centifolia burgundiaca

A pompon barely an inch across, with more petals than a rose four times the size.

Book: Rosa Centifolia Burgundiaca, from Les Roses
Artist: Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Date: 1817–1824
Held by: Wikimedia Commons

Rosa centifolia burgundiaca

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore, down to the stipple.

Size

$29.00

The story

The Pompon de Bourgogne is a miniature of the cabbage rose — a flower barely an inch across, packed with so many petals that it opens into a perfect flat rosette like a rosette on a shoe. It was already old when Redouté drew it, a cottage rose that had been passed from garden to garden for generations. The Empress had it at Malmaison alongside everything rare and new. The most valuable garden in Europe made room for a cottage rose.

See it on your wall

The garden, brought indoors

The Burgundy Rose printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

About this reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate held by Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright (1817–1824).
Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years (inscribed pieces and atelier bouquets are set by hand and printed to order).
Colour-managed to the source scan: the hand-colour is the colourist’s, not ours. We correct nothing and invent nothing.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the stipple that makes a petal look soft, the wash of the hand-colourist, the veins of the leaf — on stock made to outlive its owner. A poster reproduces the picture. This reproduces the plate.

From the same hand