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Study of a Tulip ('t roosje)
Created c. 1645
Curatorial Overview
“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 Dutch name, inscribed on the sheet, means "trumpet."”
DimensionsRecorded in archive
OriginNetherlands
InstitutionThe Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession No.2020.132
Credit LineNancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
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Curatorial Affinity Stream
Continuing the Universe of Pieter Holsteyn II (Dutch, c.1612–1673)
Natural History • Netherlands • Harmonious Works & Contemporaries
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