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Hyacinth

Jan Laurensz. van der Vinne
1699-1753

Hyacinth

1729
16 5/16 x 11 inches (415 x 280 mm)
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
1979.29

Gift of Mrs. Hanns Schaeffer in honor of Charles Ryskamp on his 10th anniversary as Director.

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right, in brown ink, "Jan van der Vinne Pinxit 1729"; inscribed at upper center, by the artist, in brown ink, "Vrede Rijk".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over 4 and letters "LVG" below, (Strasbourg lily)(similar to Heawood, no. 1839).
Associated names
Schaeffer, Hanns S., Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography
Flowers in Books of Drawings, ca. 940-1840, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1980, no. 94, pl. 15.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 220.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 427.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department