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Collection Online as of December 18, 2025
Study of a Tulip ('t roosje)
c. 1645
(Dutch, c.1612–1673)
Sheet: 31.2 x 21 cm (12 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Location: Not on view
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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, means "trumpet."- with Johan Bosch van Rosenthal, Amsterdam1992Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1992, lot 142Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OHMarch 2, 2020the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Scallen, Catherine B. "Holsteyn and Prins." In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 32-37, 44-45. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 32-37; Mentioned: p. 264-265
- 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 ('t roosje)|url=false|author=Pieter Holsteyn II|year=c. 1645|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.132