Artwork
Iris
Iris is a watercolor work on paper by the Early Baroque Italian artist Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. It dates from 1568 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
About this work
Overview
The album’s inscriptions in French and Latin, along with its binding, suggest it was likely produced in France before Lemoyne’s move to London around 1580.
The drawing depicts an iris stem with two blossoms, featuring green bracts, grey flowers with blue standards, purple falls, and yellow beards. It is part of a 59-work botanical watercolor album attributed to Jacques Lemoyne de Morgues, dated around 1575. The verso of the sheet is blank, and the work belongs to a group of botanical illustrations acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1856. The album’s inscriptions in French and Latin, along with its binding, suggest it was likely produced in France before Lemoyne’s move to London around 1580.
Artist & collection
Artist
Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (French pronunciation: ; c. 1533–1588) was a French artist and member of Jean Ribault's expedition to the New World. His depictions of Native American life and culture, colonial life, and…
