De Poolse Muts

De Poolse Muts

Balthasar van der Ast, c. 1620–30

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Artist: Balthasar van der Ast (Dutch, 1593–1657)
Medium: Brush and watercolor in red, green, and yellow with white heightening or grey wash on antique laid cream paper
Size: 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.)
Culture: Netherlands
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art
Rights: CC0 — no rights reserved

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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