Study of a Tulip (Perregoen Machieu) — About This Work
Pieter Holsteyn II, c. 1645
About the Work
A red-and-white tulip is centred on a broad sheet. The quiet field around the plant makes its changes of contour and colour especially apparent, inviting a close rather than distant encounter.
Perregoen Machieu is recorded as the variety name. The museum's account of the tulip-book setting connects the image with horticultural commerce, where an individual flower's markings could distinguish one sought-after specimen from another.
Brushpoint detail combines with transparent and opaque watercolour. Keeping the sheet whole preserves the scale of that description, allowing the painted flower to retain its relationship with the paper that surrounds it.
The Work
Artist: Pieter Holsteyn II
Title: Study of a Tulip (Perregoen Machieu)
Date: c. 1645
Medium: Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper
Recorded dimensions: 27.3 × 36 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 2020.133
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 40 × 50 cm Classic Frame, portrait.
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; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift. 2020.133.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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