id:			133043
accession number:	1955.467
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.467
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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

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creditline:			Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of Mrs. William G. Mather
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culture:	France, 17th century
technique:	etching and engraving, hand colored
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Robert-Dumesnil Vol. III.231-232

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CREATORS

* Jean-Baptiste I Monnoyer (French, c. 1636–1699)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Flower and Fruit Prints and Drawings
	opening date:   1960-05-25T04:00:00
	<i>Flower and Fruit Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 25-October 10, 1960).

	title:		Flower Prints
	opening date:   1965-05-07T04:00:00
	<i>Flower Prints</i>. 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
	<i>The Flowering of the Botanical Print</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).

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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.”
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