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Pieter Holsteyn II

Study of a Tulip (Wit en root boode)

c. 1645
Point of brush and transparent and opaque watercolors with traces of graphite and gum glazing 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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