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Megasoma Elephas or Megaceras Jason and Six Other Insects
Inscriptions
Inscribed center, below the beetle, in pen and brown ink: “PH”
Provenance
Private collection, Winterthur and Zurich, to 1957; by descent to a private collection, Winterthur and Meilen, to 2004; by descent; sold by Daxer & Marschall Kunsthandel, Munich, to a private collector, New York, 2013; sold through Daxer & Marschall Kunsthandel, Munich, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.
Publications
Thea Vignau-Wilberg, Pieter Holsteijn the Younger, Haarlem 1614–1673 Amsterdam: Diverse Crawling and Flying Animals (Munich: Daxer & Marschall, 2013), pp. 32–33, no. 4 (color ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pieter Holsteyn, the younger / Dutch, 1614–1687
- Date
- 1640/80
- Medium
- Watercolor and opaque watercolor on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 16.5 × 21.6 cm (6 1/2 × 8 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2020.263
More by Pieter Holsteyn, the younger in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00006220
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