Pierre Vallet

Pierre Vallet (c1575 Orléans - 1657) was a French botanical artist, engraver and embroidery designer. [1]

Pierre Vallet (1608)
Plate from
"Le Jardin du roy très chrestien Henry IV"

French court patronage of botanical painting was initiated by Marie de Medicis of Florence, second wife of Henry IV of France. Under her tutelage Pierre Vallet became the French court's first botanical painter and in 1608 he published Le Jardin du tres Chrestien Henry IV. The work depicted plants from the garden of the Louvre Palace supplied with exotic curiosities by French explorers returning from West Africa and Spain.[2]

Vallet also illustrated Jacques-Philippe Cornut's Canadensium plantarum published in 1635,[3] and Les Adventures Amoureuse de Theagenes et Chariclée Sommairement Discrète et Representee par Figures (Gabriel Tavernier, Paris, 1613),[4] the hero and heroine of an erotic 4th century romance in Greek by Heliodorus, Bishop of Trikka.

References
  1. https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/vallet-pierre-ca-1575-1657-le-jardin-du-roy-tres--641-c-z2fwgd9tgh
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-18. Retrieved 2013-10-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Canadensium Plantarum...Historia... Enchiridion Botanicum, JACQUES PHILIPPE CORNUT - Antiquariat Botanicum - Botany, Gardening, Color Plate, Herbals, Science, Exploration, Mathematics, Medicine".
  4. http://www.bibliorare.com/vente-pierre_beres12.pdf

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