Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011225Study of a Tulip ('t roosje)
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, means "trumpet."
Provenance
with Johan Bosch van Rosenthal, Amsterdam 1992: Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1992, lot 142 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH March 2, 2020: 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
- Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 31.2 x 21 cm (12 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Accession no.
- 2020.132
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