Attributed to Govaert Flinck (1615/6-1660)

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Attributed to Govaert Flinck (1615/6-1660)

'Paapeculle': an Amaranthus Tricolor Linnaeus

with inscription and number 'Paapeculle/No.10:'; black and white chalk, on blue paper
278 x 225 mm.

Provenance

E.J. Thomassen à Thuessink van der Hoop van Slochteren, Fraeylemaborg; Beijers, Utrecht, 6 Oct. 1971, part of lot 674

Literature

P. Schatborn, Een toeschrijving aan Govaert Flinck, Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 1974, 22, nos 2-3, pp. 111-20, no. 10, pl.12

Exhibited

Utrecht, 1978, no. 44

Lot Essay

'Paapecule' is a popular name for a group of plants. D.O. Wijnands of the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam was the first to recognize that the plant is not a Paapeculle, but an Amaranthus, which belongs to a genus of plants imported from the East Indies to Europe in 1584. The inscription on the present lot is by the same hand as that on the study of a cauliflower in the Rijksprentenkabinet (Schatborn, op.cit., no. 4, pl.11)

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