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Study of a Tulip (Gemarmerde van Jasper)

Study of a Tulip (Gemarmerde van Jasper)

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 roughly to "marriage of jasper stone."
  • Galerie Kurt Meissner, Zürich, Switzerland
    March 20, 2006
    (likely) Koller Auctionen, Zürich, Switzerland
    Haboldt & Co., Paris, France
    Private Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    March 4, 2019
    the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • RKD # 218032, (Rijksbureau Kunstdocumentatie, The Hague) rkd.nl
    Segal, Sam, in Van der Goes/Jenzen et al. Tulipomanie: die Tulpe in der Kunst des 16. Und 17. Jahrhunderts. Dresden: Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden, 2004 p. 31-32, fig. 19
  • 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 (Gemarmerde van Jasper)|url=false|author=Pieter Holsteyn II|year=c. 1645|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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