A vertical vellum page features a watercolor illustration of orange lilies crowning a thick, scaly stalk. The downward-facing blooms have curved petals and red stamens. Below, a black, white, and red butterfly rests on a leaf to our left, while a fuzzy pink and black caterpillar crawls to our right. A thin red and black double border frames the centered composition against the creamy parchment.

Jean Le Roy de la Boissière, Poitiers, France, commissioned

(Sale: Christie's, London, 8/1/1962, lot 219)

H. P. Kraus, New York, NY, sold to M. and W. Corning

M. and W. Corning, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Bouquet of Orange Lilies, Moth, and Caterpillar, folio 19 (verso), from Florilegium (A Book of Flower Studies)

Three Studies of  Angels for a Pendentive (recto); Studies for Christ Meeting His Mother on the Road to Calvary, Studies of an Angel in a Pendentive (verso)

Bouquet of Orange Lilies, Moth, and Caterpillar, folio 19 (verso), from Florilegium (A Book of Flower Studies)

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