Annica Bricogne 2 Superb Original Watercolors Botany XIXth C. Horticulture

Annica BRICOGNE (1820 (?) - 1919) - Plants with purple flowers. 2 original watercolors on paper, 1 of which is gummed and signed lower left, both framed with a black ink line. Dimensions of the frame: approximately 150 x 97 mm - Dimensions of the sheets: approximately 220 x 160. Condition: Pale foxing at the bottom of the signed watercolor, slight smudges of the green of the leaves for the other, old assembly marks on the back . Watercolors of great finesse. Despite the online consultation, on Hortalia, the superb site of the National Horticultural Society of France, many horticultural journals of the time, we have not found any trace of publication of these 2 watercolors. Annica Bricogne, painter of flowers, painted with Maubert the plates of the "Century of the most beautiful roses painted from nature", (Paris, Dusacq, nd, around 1850). She also painted most of the plates for the first years of the magazine "L'Horticulteur Français" (first published in 1851). His original watercolors are very rare on the market.