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| HISTORY OF THE « MARTHE HERBARIUM » I was born in 1925 in the countryside, my parents were farmers. Early in my life, I was interested in constituting an herbarium of wild plants by pressing specimens between two sheets of blotting paper after identification. This for a good conservation. Later, I decided to be a medicine doctor. In 1942 at the faculty of medicine, part of the teaching was devoted to plant biology to know and understand pharmacology better, since wild plants contain numerous produces used by popular medicine to cure some diseases. So I constituted a second herbarium, more scientific. Then I kept collecting specimens when I travelled in other countries of the world. |
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Later, when I retired in 1980, I decided to paint these wild flowers of my village. My boyfriend, who is also a poet, wrote a poem (quatrain) for each of the one hundred specimens that I had painted in water-colors. So we published a book entitled Flore en pays d'Ourcq (Amarco éditions - ISBN 2-9509571-1-0). It contains reproductions of ten of them, with their botanic characteristics, and their four line poems. And we joined the poems for fifty more specimens. |
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I actually painted each one many times. At last I was tired to paint on paper, for I am not so talented as REDOUTÉ with roses. So I remembered the Flora Danica, botanic atlas of wild plants of Denmark created by G.C. OEDER from 1761 (and completed in 1883), and also the golden age of porcelain : Crown Prince Frederick, Regent of Denmark and later Frederick VI, wanted a porcelain service where all the plants would be transcribed. This great task to transcribe the Flora Danica to porcelain became the life’s work of one man : J.C. BAYER, who achieved an unequalled hand-painted dinner set decoration. |
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| So, I present hereafter some samples of original pieces of porcelain that I hand-painted for dinner service. They are flowers of my village. |
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| Accueil History (page top) Plan-herbier Mes-herbiers Fleurs séchées |
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| Porcelaines–1 Porcelaines–2 Porcelaines–3 Porcelaines–4 |
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