aubrietia

garden ornamental plant

After the French flower painter Claude Aubriet (Châlons-sur-Marne 1665, Paris 1742). He accompanied the French botanist Tournefort on his journey in Asia Minor and became painter of the Cabinet et Jardin du Roi in 1700.

His beautiful plant drawings on wove paper are preserved in the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

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