id: 133043 accession number: 1955.467 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.467 updated: Bouquet. Jean-Baptiste I Monnoyer (French, c. 1636–1699). Etching and engraving, hand colored; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of Mrs. William G. Mather 1955.467 title: Bouquet title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: creation date earliest: creation date latest: current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of Mrs. William G. Mather copyright: --- culture: France, 17th century technique: etching and engraving, hand colored department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Robert-Dumesnil Vol. III.231-232 --- CREATORS * Jean-Baptiste I Monnoyer (French, c. 1636–1699) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Flower and Fruit Prints and Drawings opening date: 1960-05-25T04:00:00 Flower and Fruit Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 25-October 10, 1960). title: Flower Prints opening date: 1965-05-07T04:00:00 Flower Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 7-June 6, 1965). title: The Flowering of the Botanical Print opening date: 2016-03-26T00:00:00 The Flowering of the Botanical Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Seventeenth-century botanical illustrators were stimulated by a surge of interest in their subject. While in the mid-16th century only 500 plants were known, less than a century later that number had grown to 6,000. A passion for cultivating beautiful rather than useful plants took hold, and formal gardens with carefully arranged flower beds based on embroidery designs supplemented varieties of local plants with foreign samples. Exotic flowers became available in Europe as the Dutch founded colonies in the East and West Indies, South America, and India. While fabulous royal gardens were planted in France at Fontainebleau and the Louvre, for instance, in England “a whole nation went mad about flowers.” --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.467/1955.467_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.467/1955.467_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.467/1955.467_full.tif