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Innsbruck from the series Civitates Orbis Terrarum, vol. V, plate 59

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Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects

Joris Hoefnagel  (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1542–1601 Vienna)

Date:
1589
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, and shell gold on vellum
Dimensions:
sheet: 4 5/8 x 3 11/16 in. (11.7 x 9.3 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price, Jean A. Bonna, and Annette de la Renta Gifts, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2008
Accession Number:
2008.110

This artwork is not on display

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: In the cartouche below the vase, signed and inscribed "AMORIS MONUMENTV[M] MATRI CHARISS[IMAE]|GEORGIVS HOEFNAGLIVS. D. Ao 89." by the artist

  • Provenance

    Elisabeth Veselaer Hoefnagel (died after 1589); Susanna Hoefnagel-Huygens (1561 - 1633 The Hague); Huygens family ; Private Collection, The Netherlands ; Vendor: Nicolaas Teeuwisse (Dutch, active Berlin)

  • References

    Stijn Alsteens, Nadine Orenstein, Perrin Stein "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2007-2008." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 66, no. 2, Fall 2008, p. 18, ill.

    Thea Vignau-Wilberg Studia rudolphina. Sonderheft. München-Prag um 1600 Joris Hoefnagel und die Freiheit des hofgeschützten Künstlers. Beket Bukovinská, Lubomír Konecný, Artefactum. Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik, Prague, 2009, fig. no. 2, 127.



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