Monsieur Jean-Paul Redogte cannot believe his luck. He has been invited to Empress Josephone Bone-aparte’s soirée at Chateau de Malmaison to celebrate the glorious creation of Dog Perignon’s over one hundred years’ ago in 1693: CHAMPAGNE! He isal also doubly excited because he has also just learned that the Empress is setting out to collect every, yes- every, single example of Rose that currently exists in the entire universe. How can this be, he wonders? It if she is set on doing this, and she has commanded them all to be documented in fine botanical weather colour paintings, well then, he is her top dog. He looks around for the Empress in order to pay her his most gracious courtesies and simultaneously tries to spy a coupe of that magical bubbly concoction, just as his nose catches a whiff of the Rosa Canina! Oh what a glorious evening.....
- Subject Matter: PORTRAIT
- Created: August 2021
- Collections: Botanical, Dogland Blues, Fashionhound, French