Lot 129: f - PIETER HOLSTEYN THE YOUNGER HAARLEM CIRCA 1614 - 1673

f - PIETER HOLSTEYN THE YOUNGER HAARLEM CIRCA 1614 - 1673

A TULIP: SENT OFT PEREL

measurements note
318 by 208 mm

inscribed lower right in black ink: Sent oft Perel.

pen and grey ink and watercolour and gouache

NOTE

This drawing is from an album, now dispersed, which originally contained 185 flower drawings by the artist, 82 of them depicting tulips (see Sam Segal, Flowers and Nature, Netherlandish Flower Painting of Four Centuries, exh. cat., Tokyo/Sydney 1990, p.43). The album can be dated to the mid-1640s.