Exhibition -Watercolours in bloom - Treasures from the botanical garden of the French Navy

Created from life by volunteer draftsmen between 1794 and 1827, these watercolors offer an invaluable insight into the diversity of the garden, where species from all five continents were cultivated. Each drawing presents the plant as a whole, as well as precise details of its anatomy, such as seeds, petals, flowers and shells.... Each illustration is also accompanied by notes detailing the plant's characteristics, origin, cultivation and flowering.

Vincent Courdouan's "Vue de la rade de...