Study of a Tulip (Ammirael Winckel) — About This Work
Pieter Holsteyn II, c. 1645
About the Work
Made around 1645, Study of a Tulip (Ammirael Winckel) isolates a single variegated tulip against the pale laid paper. Holsteyn worked in brush and watercolour in crimson, grey and green, with traces of charcoal beneath the painted image.
The sheet was made as part of a tulip book used as a grower’s marketing tool during the seventeenth-century Dutch tulip trade. The flame-like striations that give the flower its distinctive appearance were caused by a virus in the bulb and made such tulips especially prized.
The inscription on the sheet gives the flower’s Dutch name, Ammirael Winckel, or “Admiral Winckel”. The Cleveland Museum of Art notes that Winckel was the family name of one of the period’s largest tulip growers.
The Work
Artist: Pieter Holsteyn II
Title: Study of a Tulip (Ammirael Winckel)
Date: c. 1645
Medium: Brush and watercolours in crimson, grey and green over traces of charcoal on antique laid paper
Sheet: 21.3 × 31.9 cm
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 2019.4
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 30 × 40 cm, portrait, with a deliberate surrounding white presentation area.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
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Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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