De Poolse Muts
Medium
brush and watercolor in red, green, and yellow with white heightening or grey wash on antique laid cream paper
Dimensions
image: 30.3 × 19.9 cm · matted: 49.7 × 39.1 × 0.3 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
2019.1
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.