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Watercolor and ink on a vertically oriented vellum page depict a circular green labyrinth within a landscape under a streaked blue sky. Below, an empty rectangular panel sits above a golden basin flanked by two horned faces. A decorative border to our right blooms with a blue lily, red berries, a flower-filled vase, and two butterflies. Fine red lines frame the sections against the cream parchment of the open book.

Labyrinth with Floral and Cornucopia Border, folio 16 (recto), from Florilegium (A Book of Flower Studies)

1608

France

watercolor, ink, silver, and gold over occasional traces of pencil, on vellum
Sheet: 31.1 x 20.2 cm (12 1/4 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection 1963.594.16.a
Location: Not on view
  • 1608-
    Jean Le Roy de la Boissière, Poitiers, France, commissioned
    R. N. Philips, Manchester, England
    1890
    A. M. Philips, Manchester, England
    1946
    W. R. Price, London, England
    August 1, 1962
    (Sale: Christie's, London, 8/1/1962, lot 219)
    1962
    H. P. Kraus, New York, NY, sold to M. and W. Corning
    1962-1963
    M. and W. Corning, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1963-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Henning, Edward B. “Annual Report for 1963.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 6 (1964). pp. 136, 139
    “Year in Review for 1964.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 10 (1965). no. 147, p. 245
  • Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).
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