AT-00022659
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Study of a red catchfly (Lychnis hirsuta)
Provenance
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Quick Overview
- Artist
- Herman Saftleven II (Dutch, Rotterdam 1609–1685 Utrecht)
- Date
- 1680
- Medium
- Watercolor, gum arabic, and white gouache (oxidized to silver) over black chalk
- Dimensions
- sheet: 7 13/16 x 6 3/16 in. (19.9 x 15.7 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2008
- Accession no.
- 2008.46
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Open-access museum record · AT-00022659
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