Pressed Buttercup (Renoncule)

This original pressed botanical features a wild buttercup (renoncule), gathered in Provence and preserved in the tradition of antique herbarium studies. Buttercups grow freely across Provençal fields and paths in spring, their small, luminous blooms scattered among grasses and stones.

Pressed and mounted here with care, the plant reveals its quiet complexity — slender branching stems, delicately lobed leaves, and flowers reduced to soft, translucent forms by time. What once caught the light in the open field is now held still, offering a more intimate way of seeing.

This piece speaks to the everyday beauty of the Provençal landscape: unassuming, resilient, and shaped by season rather than cultivation. It is a study of what grows where it is allowed, and how even the most familiar flowers carry grace when closely observed.

Well suited to a studio, shelf, or wall where natural history and quiet beauty are welcome.

Details

• Pressed buttercup (Renoncule / Ranunculus spp.)

• Gathered in Provence

• Mounted on archival paper

• Original, one of a kind

• Unframed (frame shown for styling only)