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Pieter Holsteyn II

Study of a Tulip (Gemarmerde van Jasper)

c. 1645
brush and watercolor in crimson, gray, and green over traces of charcoal on antique laid paper

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In 17th-century Holland, some tulip bulbs were as expensive as a stately Amsterdam canal house!

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