Four Tulips: Boter man (Butter Man), Joncker (Nobleman), Grote geplumaceerde (The Great Plumed One), and Voorwint (With the Wind)

Jacob Marrel  (German, Frankenthal 1613/14–1681 Frankfurt am Main)

Period:
17th century
Date:
ca. 1635–1645
Medium:
watercolor on vellum
Dimensions:
sheet (c.): 13 3/8 x 17 11/16 in. (34 x 44.9 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1968
Accession Number:
68.66
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Left to right in pen and brown ink the names of the four species: Boter man (Butter Man) Joncker (Nobelman) Grote geplumaceerde (The Great Plumed One) Voorwint (With the Wind) Upper left corner in pen and brown ink: WV 23 Upper right corner in pen and brown ink: N24

  • References

    Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide Tulips in Dutch seventeenth century decorative arts in The Magazine Antiques. April 1991, fig. no. pl.1, pp. 740-741, ill.

    Madeline Pinault Le Peintre et l'histoire naturelle. 1990, fig. no. p.149, pp. 146-147, ill.

    A. Hyatt Mayor The engagement calendar for 1971. Flowers for all seasons. 1971, ill.

    Jacob Bean, John J. McKendry "A Fortunate Year" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 27, no. 6, February 1969. New York, February 1969, fig. no. Cover ill., p. 316., ill.

    J. T. Butler The American way with art in Connoisseur. 172, 1969, fig. no. p.64, p. 62, ill.

    Ingvar Bergström Jacob Marrel's Earliest Tulip Book -- Hitherto Unknown in Tableau. 7, no. 2. November 1984, footnote 34, pp. 40, 46.

    William W. Robinson Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings, A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection. 1991, briefly mentioned under no.99, p. 216.

    Michiel C. Plomp The Dutch Drawings in the Teyler Museum; Volume II: Artists born between 1575 and 1630. II, Haarlem / Ghent / Doornspijk, 1997, cat. no. 252, p. 234.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 90 (entry written by Stijn Alsteens); p. x, xiv (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), ill.



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