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De Poolse Muts
Balthasar van der Astc. 1620-30
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Still-life painting began in the Northern Netherlands (present-day Holland) around the turn of the 1600s. Still-life painter Balthasar van der Ast made this precise botanical study of a pink carnation as a reference that he could add later to a painting of an elaborate bouquet of flowers. Van der Ast inscribed the name “The Polish Cap,” on the sheet to suggest that the flower came from foreign lands.
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- Title: De Poolse Muts
- Creator: Balthasar van der Ast (Dutch, 1593/94-1657)
- Date Created: c. 1620-30
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 30.2 x 19.9 cm (11 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.1
- Medium: brush and watercolor in red, green, and yellow with white heightening or grey wash on antique laid cream paper
- Inscriptions: recto, De Poolse Muts in brown ink, monogrammed BA lower right in faded black ink, numbered 274 in brown ink lower left, verso, erased or rubbed chalk numbers, upper left, watermark: basel crozier
- Fun Fact: According to Christian legend, carnations appeared when the Virgin Mary shed tears as Jesus carried the cross, thus the flower’s traditional association with Mother’s Day.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: Netherlands, 17th century
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: DR - Dutch
- Accession Number: 2019.1
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