Attributed to Johanna Helena Herolt
1668-1723
Studies of Dame's Violet (Hesperis matronalis plena candida) and Double Stocks (Matthiola incana plena)
13 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches (340 x 272 mm)
Transparent and opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on prepared parchment; selective use of gum arabic glaze.
1995.4
Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Mrs. John Barry Ryan.
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).
Formerly attributed to Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on a cartouche on the old mount (now destroyed), "May".
Associated names
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717, Formerly attributed to.
Ryskamp, Charles, former owner.
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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