詳情
HERMAN HENSTENBURGH (HOORN 1667-1726)
A pot with asters and two seed pods
signed 'HB fe.' (the letters H and B interlaced) (recto) and inscribed by Agnes Block 'Aster AE:thiopicús folio Crassi./ ficús Aizoides Africana folio plano minor múlticaúlo/ flore intús Rúb: atús incarnato Hort: Academ: Lúgd: 253./ 1685. Aúgústi.' (verso)
traces of black chalk, watercolour, bodycolour (partially oxidized) and gum Arabic, fragmentary watermark fleur-de-lys
1258 x 938 in. (32.3 x 24 cm)
來源
Commissioned by Agnes Block (1629-1704) for her collection at Vijverhof, Nieuwersluis.
Possibly Valerius Röver, Delft (1686-1739).
Possibly Samuel van Huls (1655-1734), The Hague; Yver, Amsterdam, 14 May 1736, lot 3882 ('2 Grands Livres contenant 7 Titres & 252 Pièces en miniature; representant des fleurs & plantes étrangères & autres, cultivées par Agnes Block à Vijverhoff, & peintres d'après nature par plusieurs maîtres fort renommés; comme Withorst, Withoos, Herm: Saftleven, Herold & autres').
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拍品專文

This detailed drawing of asters in a pot was commissioned by the celebrated collector and botanist Agnes Block (1629-1704). Shortly after her husband's death, Block acquired the estate of Vijverhof on the bank of the river Vecht where she established a botanical garden which soon became famous for its rare specimens (including the first edible pineapple in Europe). To record her botanical specimens, she ordered a number of artists, including Herman Saftleven, Johannes Bronkhorst, Maria Sibylla Merian and Merian's daughter Johanna Helena Herolt Graff, to produce detailed scientific drawings of them. As is the case with the present sheet, these drawings aimed to communicate all the known information about a specimen in a single image; here the flowers are shown at various stages of blooming, and at the lower right two of the plant's seed pods are shown. Block described the details of the depicted flower or plant on the verso of each sheet, as in this instance. Another botanical drawing by Henstenburgh, probably also commissioned by Block and also executed in 1685, is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. RP-T-1948-58).

In total Block commissioned around 400 drawings which she kept in albums. After her death these were bought by Valerius Röver. Two albums with 252 of these drawings were sold in 1736 (see provenance), and the present sheet could well have been part of this group.

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