7.2019.17: A Tulip (Vroege Perregon)
DrawingsA drawing with watercolor depicts a single tulip with a green stem and white and red petals. The stem is long and bright green with thre leaves protruding from the bottom. Each leaf has curved edges and pointed tips. Two leaves point upwards while the third points down. There are six white petals with streaks of red across the top and sides of each. Some petals are pointed while others have rounded tips. Two of the petals point outwards and the remaining four face up. The title of the piece “Vroege Perregon” is present at the bottom of the print.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 7.2019.17
- People
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Pieter Holsteyn II, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1614 - 1673 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Previously attributed to Jacob Morel, German (Frankenthal 1614 - 1681 Frankfurt)
- Title
- A Tulip (Vroege Perregon)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/77810
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Transparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 31.8 × 20.2 cm (12 1/2 × 7 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower center, black ink: Vroege Perregon.
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 7
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 14
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- E. H. Krelage (1634-46), Tulpenboeken, Haarlem. [C.F. Louis de Wild, New York], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1965
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
- Accession Year
- 2019
- Object Number
- 7.2019.17
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Franklin W. Robinson, Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1969), cat. 41, p. x, repr. (as Jacob Morel [sic])
Exhibition History
- Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, 03/27/1969 - 04/28/1969; Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 05/04/1969 - 06/04/1969; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 09/17/1969 - 10/12/1969; University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, 10/18/1969 - 11/16/1969
- Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450–1750, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/18/2024 - 08/18/2024
Subjects and Contexts
- Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
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