id: 380061 accession number: 2020.131 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.131 updated: 2023-08-24 01:38:10.354000 Study of a Tulip (Anvaers), c. 1645. Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612–1673). Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper; sheet: 31.1 x 20.6 cm (12 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.131 title: Study of a Tulip (Anvaers) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1645 creation date earliest: 1640 creation date latest: 1650 current location: creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift copyright: --- culture: Netherlands technique: Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper department: Drawings collection: DR - Dutch type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612–1673) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 31.1 x 20.6 cm (12 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00 Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE with Johan Bosch van Rosenthal, Amsterdam date: footnotes: citations: Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1992, lot 178 date: 1992 footnotes: citations: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 2, 2020 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: In 17th-century Holland, some tulip bulbs were as expensive as a stately Amsterdam canal house. digital description: 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 name, inscribed on the sheet, is the French word for the city of Antwerp. wall description: These images of tulips—each slightly different from the next—once belonged to albums of similar drawings compiled during the “tulip mania,” a time in 1600s Holland when 10 tulip bulbs could cost more than a stately Amsterdam canal house. Tulip books were kept by collectors or used by growers to show potential buyers the flower they could expect from the bulb. The stripes on the tulips, caused by a virus, made these red and white specimens especially valuable. To elevate their perceived value even further, each was given a lofty name, such as “marriage of jasper stone”(Gemarmerde van Jasper), “Antwerp” (Anavers), the name of a collector or grower (Perregoen Machieu), “white and red messenger” (wit en root boode),“little trumpet”(‘troosje), and Admiral Winckel, the family name of one of the largest tulip growers in the period (AmmiraelWinckel). --- RELATED WORKS id: 80646 Study of a Tulip (Wit en root boode), c. 1645. Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612-1673). Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper; sheet: 31.2 x 20.6 cm (12 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.130 relationship: id: 380062 Study of a Tulip ('t roosje), c. 1645. Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612-1673). Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper; sheet: 31.2 x 21 cm (12 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.132 relationship: id: 380063 Study of a Tulip (Perregoen Machieu), c. 1645. Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612-1673). Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper; sheet: 36 x 27.3 cm (14 3/16 x 10 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.133 relationship: --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.131/2020.131_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.131/2020.131_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.131/2020.131_full.tif