Henri Matisse's *Florilège des amours de Ronsard* is an illustrated book featuring 127 lithographs printed in warm sepia tones, accompanying the love poetry of Renaissance poet Pierre de Ronsard. Matisse's fluid, gestural line drawings bring an intimate and lyrical quality to the verses, capturing the sensual and romantic spirit of Ronsard's writing with characteristic economy of form. This particular copy is incomplete, lacking pages 99–102, which includes one of the original lithographs.