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De Poolse Muts

De Poolse Muts

c. 1620–30
(Dutch, 1593/94–1657)
Netherlands
brush and watercolor in red, green, and yellow with white heightening or grey wash on antique laid cream paper
Sheet: 30.2 x 19.9 cm (11 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2019.1
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

According to Christian legend, carnations appeared when the Virgin Mary shed tears as Jesus carried the cross, thus the flower’s traditional association with Mother’s Day.

Description

Still-life painting began in the Northern Netherlands (present-day Holland) around the turn of the 1600s. Still-life painter Balthasar van der Ast made this precise botanical study of a pink carnation as a reference that he could add later to a painting of an elaborate bouquet of flowers. Van der Ast inscribed the name “The Polish Cap,” on the sheet to suggest that the flower came from foreign lands.
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    Luijten, Ger. Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art, 1580-1620. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1993. p. 299
    Liedtke, Walter A., Michiel Plomp, and Axel Rüger. Vermeer and the Delft School. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. p. 446-46
  • {{cite web|title=De Poolse Muts|url=false|author=Balthasar van der Ast|year=c. 1620–30|access-date=08 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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