The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Bouquet
c. 1680–95
(French, c. 1636–1699)
Catalogue raisonné: Robert-Dumesnil Vol. III.231-232
Location: not on view
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.”- The Flowering of the Botanical Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).Flower Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 7-June 6, 1965).Flower and Fruit Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 25-October 10, 1960).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1955.467