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De Poolse Muts
About the Artwork
Still-life painting began in the Northern Netherlands (present-day Holland) around the turn of the 1600s. Still-life painter Balthasar van der Ast made this precise botanical study of a pink carnation as a reference that he could add later to a painting of an elaborate bouquet of flowers. Van der Ast inscribed the name “The Polish Cap,” on the sheet to suggest that the flower came from foreign lands.
Inscriptions
recto, De Poolse Muts in brown ink; monogrammed BA lower right in faded black ink; numbered 274 in brown ink lower left; verso, erased or rubbed chalk numbers, upper left; watermark: basel crozier
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Balthasar van der Ast (Dutch, 1593/94–1657)
- Date
- c. 1620–30
- Medium
- brush and watercolor in red, green, and yellow with white heightening or grey wash on antique laid cream paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 37.5 x 26.7 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.); Matted: 49.7 x 39.1 x 0.3 cm (19 9/16 x 15 3/8 x 1/8 in.); Image: 30.3 x 19.9 cm (11 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.1
More by Balthasar van der Ast in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011236
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