Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
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Constant BOURGEOIS<br />
French 1767–1841<br />
DEVILLIERS jeune engraver<br />
French 1784– after 1844<br />
View <strong>of</strong> the hothouse at Malmaison<br />
Vue de la serre chaude à la Malmaison<br />
1808<br />
etching<br />
Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison & Bois-Préau,<br />
Rueil-Malmaison MM.40.47.9532<br />
The fifty-metre long Grande Serre chaude<br />
(Large Hothouse) at Malmaison was<br />
constructed between 1803 and 1805.<br />
It was essential for sheltering the Empress’s<br />
botanical collections (part <strong>of</strong> which came<br />
from the Australian expedition commanded<br />
by Baudin). The most current technical<br />
improvements enabled the cultivation there<br />
<strong>of</strong> numerous exotic species under the care<br />
<strong>of</strong> the botanists Étienne Pierre Ventenat and<br />
Aimé Bonpland. Given the height <strong>of</strong> this<br />
hothouse, five metres, certain specimens<br />
could attain here the same growth and<br />
beauty as in their native countries.<br />
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