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Study of a Tulip (Ammirael Winckel)

Study of a Tulip (Ammirael Winckel)

c. 1645
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

In 17th-century Holland, some tulip bulbs were as expensive as a stately Amsterdam canal house!

Description

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, translates to "Admiral Winckel." Winckel was the family name of one of the largest growers of tulips in the period.
  • November 12, 1990
    Christie's, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    March 11, 1995
    Koller Auctionen, Zürich, Switzerland
    March 20, 2006
    Koller Auctionen, Zürich, Switzerland
    Haboldt & Co., Paris, France, New York, New York
    Private Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    March 4, 2019
    the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • RKD # 216643, (Rijksbureau Kunstdocumentatie, The Hague) rkd.nl
  • Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
  • {{cite web|title=Study of a Tulip (Ammirael Winckel)|url=false|author=Pieter Holsteyn II|year=c. 1645|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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