# Study of a Tulip (Wit en root boode), in Gardens and Botanicals

Pieter Holsteyn II painted this in about 1645, aged about 28. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> This image of a tulip was made as part of a tulip book used as a grower’s marketing tool during the so-called tulip mania, a speculative bubble in 17th-century Holland, when ten tulip bulbs could cost more than a stately Amsterdam canal house.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1645
- Medium: Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing on antique laid paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 31.2 x 20.6 cm (12 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2020.130
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Pieter Holsteyn II](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/pieter-holsteyn-ii), Dutch, c.1612–1673

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