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Feb 7, 2019
De Poolse Muts
De Poolse Muts
c. 1620–30
Balthasar van der Ast
(Dutch, 1593/94–1657)
Brush and watercolor in red, green, and yellow with white heightening or grey wash on antique laid cream paper
Sheet: 30.2 x 19.9 cm (11 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2019.1
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According to Christian legend, carnations appeared when the Virgin Mary shed tears as Jesus carried the cross, thus the flower’s traditional association with Mother’s Day.
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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.
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