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Pieter Holsteyn II. Study of a Tulip (Perregoen Machieu), c. 1645. 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.). Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.133. CC0.
Study of a Tulip (Perregoen Machieu)
c. 1645
Pieter Holsteyn II
Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612–1673)
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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 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. In 17th-century Holland, some tulip bulbs were as expensive as a stately Amsterdam canal house.