Drawing of four tulips, each with a bug; three have red and yellow petals and one has pink and white.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A drawing with watercolor depicts four tulips with light green stems and multi-colored petals. The tulip on the far left has pink and white petals while the other three have red and yellow petals. Each stem is long, straight, and pale green with one or two curved, pointed leaves protruding from the bottom. The leftmost tulip has petals with a pink center and white outlines. The second tulip has petals with a red center and yellow outlines. The petals on the other two tulips are yellow with red streaks. Bugs are on and around the petals and stems of the flowers.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.103
People
Jacob Marrel, Dutch (Frankenthal 1613/14 - 1681 Frankfurt am Main)
Title
Four Tulips
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1637-1645
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/211340

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on parchment
Dimensions
34.5 x 45 cm (13 9/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: at each tulip, brown ink: Purper en Vÿt. van.. Reikart. Duck. Cornel. Frug. geflampten. Potten: backer. Gel en Rot. van Leyden

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
E.L. Krelage, Haarlem. A. Wertheimer, Paris. [Schaeffer Galleries, New York]. Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1979

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
1.2018.103
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William W. Robinson, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., H. O. Zimman, Inc. (Lynn, MA, 1991), cat. no. 99, pp. 216-217, repr.
  • "Art Diary: Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450-1750", Apollo ([online], May 10, 2024), https://www.apollo-magazine.com/imagine-me-and-you-dutch-flemish-encounters-islamic-world-harvard-art-museums/, accessed July 17, 2024

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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