Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011194Study of a Tulip (Gemarmerde van Jasper)
About the Artwork
This image of a tulip was made as part of a tulip book used as a grower’s marketing tool during the so-called tulip mania, a speculative bubble in 17th-century Holland, when ten tulip bulbs could cost more than a stately Amsterdam canal house. The striations on the tulip, which were caused by a virus in the bulb, made it especially valuable. Pieter Holsteyn II was one of many artists in the Netherlands at the time who specialized in botanical illustration. This tulip's Dutch name, inscribed on the sheet, translates roughly to "marriage of jasper stone."
Inscriptions
recto, Gemarmerde van Jasper. in black ink; brown ink inscription in different hand cut off, lower border; verso, Morel and 7/79/36 and 40 and 42 and 36 in graphite; watermark: pelican within wreath
Provenance
Galerie Kurt Meissner, Zürich, Switzerland March 20, 2006: (likely) Koller Auctionen, Zürich, Switzerland Haboldt & Co., Paris, France Private Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands March 4, 2019: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612–1673)
- Date
- c. 1645
- Medium
- brush and watercolor in crimson, gray, and green over traces of charcoal on antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 32 x 21.1 cm (12 5/8 x 8 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.5
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