Orange Crowned Seville Orange - Poster 50x70cm

Aurantium coronatum - Crowned Bitter Orange

The Crowned Bitter Orange owes its name to the word bigarre, from the Latin bis varius, which evokes both variety of form and color.

This spectacular fruit, adorned with a salient circle at its apex, was long cultivated in French orangeries less for its flesh than for the splendor and incomparable fragrance of its flowers, the largest and sweetest among citrus fruits. In the 19th century, it also served as a preferred rootstock, more resistant than the lemon tree, ensuring healthy and sustainable harvests.

The Crowned Bitter Orange tree is distinguished by its majestic habit, its vivid green foliage, and its generous bloom.

Its spherical fruits, 54 to 80 millimeters in diameter, are marked by a characteristic raised circle. Inside, ten segments contain vesicles with a sweet-sour juice. Specimens cultivated in Parisian orangeries rarely produced seeds, unlike the Provençal bitter oranges sought for sowing.

Their dried peel had numerous uses: in medicine, pantry, and cooking. As for the juice, it advantageously replaced lemon in many culinary preparations.

This plate is taken from Pierre-Antoine Poiteau and Pierre Jean François Turpin's Traité des Arbres Fruitiers, a fruit encyclopedia published between 1807 and 1835, a major reference for 19th-century naturalistic illustration.

It combines the rigor of scientific drawing with a rare artistic sensibility, characteristic of the great plates of the golden age of botanical illustration.

As an anecdote, this plate was used by Salvador Dali for his lithography series 'Flordali, les Fruits' in 1969.

• Each poster is printed using 12-color Giclée printing, the benchmark for art studios for rendering fine tones, subtle gradients, and the most delicate botanical details.
• 200 g/m² paper weight, soft matte finish, 0.26 mm thickness: a rendering close to the original engraving, clear, non-reflective, designed for hanging.
• Printed on FSC certified paper, produced individually upon order.
• Shipped in a rigid protective tube.