Sheet of Studies with Five Butterflies, a Wasp, and Two Flies, Pieter Withoos, c. 1680 - c. 1692

watercolour, with opaque watercolour and silver ink, over traces of graphite, h 222mm × w 333mm More details

Drawings of butterflies like this sheet by Pieter Withoos of Amersfoort are devoid of any scientific pretensions. The artist may not have even known the names of the mounted specimens he was representing. He was more interested in creating a beautiful composition and alternating contrasting coloured insects, such as the blue and yellow-orange butterflies in this drawing.

Identification

Title(s)

Sheet of Studies with Five Butterflies, a Wasp, and Two Flies
Sheet with Five Butterflies, a Wasp and Two Flies

Object type

drawing

Object number

RP-T-1900-A-4433

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Pieter Withoos

Dating

c. 1680 - c. 1692

Material and Technique

Physical features

watercolour, with opaque watercolour and silver ink, over traces of graphite

Material

Technique

brush

Measurements

height 222 mm × width 333 mm

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 1900

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection, Ignatius Franciscus Ellinckhuysen (1814-97), Rotterdam (? L. 3008.); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller and C.M. van Gogh), 16 April 1879 sqq., no. 328 (‘Papillons et mouches. - signé. A l’aquarelle. - H. 33, L. 28’);{Copy RKD.} sale, Georg Carl Valentin Schöffer (1841-1915, Amsterdam and Scheveningen), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 30 May 1893 sqq., no. 484 (‘Papillons et insectes. Aquarelle. - Signée. Hauteur 33, largeur 28 cent.’), fl. 11, to the dealer R.P.W. de Vries (Amsterdam);{Copy RKD.} from whom, fl. 11, to the museum (L. 2228), 1900

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Persistent URL

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