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Source Description
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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Document identity
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329309
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De Poolse Muts
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drawing
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329309
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drawing
title
De Poolse Muts
description
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.
date
c. 1620–30
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q79875997
creators
21839
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Drawing
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1
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import
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Support: 37.5 x 26.7 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.); Matted: 49.7 x 39.1 x 0.3 cm (19 9/16 x 15 3/8 x 1/8 in.); Image: 30.3 x 19.9 cm (11 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
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Netherlands
accession
2019.1
Source extras
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brush and watercolor in red, green, and yellow with white heightening or grey wash on antique laid cream paper
tombstone
De Poolse Muts, c. 1620–30. Balthasar van der Ast (Dutch, 1593/94–1657). Brush and watercolor in red, green, and yellow with white heightening or grey wash on antique laid cream paper; support: 37.5 x 26.7 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.); matted: 49.7 x 39.1 x 0.3 cm (19 9/16 x 15 3/8 x 1/8 in.); image: 30.3 x 19.9 cm (11 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2019.1
collection
DR - Dutch
inscriptions
inscription
recto, De Poolse Muts in brown ink
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monogrammed BA lower right in faded black ink
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numbered 274 in brown ink lower left
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verso, erased or rubbed chalk numbers, upper left
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watermark: basel crozier
didYouKnow
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.
citations
citation
Bol, Laurens J. The Bosschaert Dynasty: Painters of Flowers and Fruit. 1960.
citation
Bol, Laurens J. <em>'Goede onbekenden': Hedendaagse herkenning en waardering vanverscholen, voorbijgezien en onderschat talent</em>. Utrecht, 1982
page_number
p. 52-56
citation
Luijten, Ger. Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art, 1580-1620. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1993.
page_number
p. 299
citation
Liedtke, Walter A., Michiel Plomp, and Axel Rüger. Vermeer and the Delft School. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.
page_number
p. 446-46
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 08:56:27.181000
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329309
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Drawings
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DR - Dutch
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brush and watercolor in red, green, and yellow with white heightening or grey wash on antique laid cream paper
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male
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