1999.150: A Purple Flower with Dragonfly
DrawingsThe purple flower has three open blooms of five petals each, with small dark stamens in each center. The stem of blooms faces right, with a smaller stem of five buds that point left. It has a dull shadow underneath. A small fly sits on the petal of the lowest flower facing downward. A dragonfly is drawn next to the flowers on the right, its four delicate shear and slender wings are open with its head pointing right. The dragonfly is about two-thirds of the size of the flower stem.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.150
- People
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Margareta de Heer, Dutch (Leeuwarden c. 1603 - between 1659-65 Leeuwarden)
- Title
- A Purple Flower with Dragonfly
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1644-1665
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/188638
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black, gray, brown, green, yellow, and violet transparent watercolor and yellow and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
- Dimensions
- 24.1 x 29.5 cm (9 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: Strasbourg lily, WR below
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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[Mathaesson-Durand, Geneva], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1978; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.150.
NOTE: Provenance information from George Abrams, by recall.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.150
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Subjects and Contexts
- Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
Verification Level
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