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AT-00011218Study of a Tulip (Ammirael Winckel)
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 to "Admiral Winckel." Winckel was the family name of one of the largest growers of tulips in the period.
Inscriptions
Recto, Ammirael Winckel. in black ink; Bottom border, cut off, Ammirael Winck in brown in (different hand); Verso: J Morel and 31 and 31 in graphite
Provenance
November 12, 1990: Christie's, Amsterdam, Netherlands March 11, 1995: Koller Auctionen, Zürich, Switzerland March 20, 2006: Koller Auctionen, Zürich, Switzerland Haboldt & Co., Paris, France, New York, New York 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 watercolors in crimson, grey and green over traces of charcoal on antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 31.9 x 21.3 cm (12 9/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.4
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