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Study of a Tulip (Perregoen Machieu)
c. 1645
(Dutch, c.1612–1673)
Sheet: 36 x 27.3 cm (14 3/16 x 10 3/4 in.)
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.- ?-1994Jacobus A. Klaver (1928-1997), Amsterdam1994Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 10 May 1994, lot 89.with Johan Bosch van Rosenthal, AmsterdamMr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OHMarch 2, 2020The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.133