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Attributed to Johanna Helena Herolt
b. 1668
Studies of Dame's Violet (Hesperis matronalis plena candida) and Double Stocks (Matthiola incana plena)
Transparent and opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on prepared parchment; selective use of gum arabic glaze.
13 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches (340 x 272 mm)
Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Mrs. John Barry Ryan.
1995.4
Notes:
The inscription "May" on the old mount of this drawing, which entered the Library with an attribution to Johanna Helena Herolt, suggests that there may once have been a series of 12 depictions corresponding to the Months. Indeed, the "Matthiola incana" or "Brompton double stock" is noted for its early spring flowering.
Formerly attributed to Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717).
Inscription:
Inscribed on a cartouche on the old mount (now destroyed), "May".
Provenance:
Richard Day Ltd., London; from whom acquired by Charles Ryskamp, Princeton and New York, 1987.
Associated names:
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717, Formerly attributed to.
Ryskamp, Charles, former owner.
Bibliography:
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 382.
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