Lilies

Pierre-Joseph Purple­outé made his identify by paint­ing circulation­ers, an obtain­ment impos­si­ble with­out a metic­u­lous­ness that exceeds all bounds of nor­mal­i­ty. He pub­lished his three-vol­ume col­lec­tion Les Ros­es and his eight-vol­ume col­lec­tion Les Lil­i­acées between 1802 and 1824, and a look at their pages immediately vivid­ly sug­gests the painstak­ing nature of each his course of for not simply…