Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers and Bird’s Nest, 1780?

Title

Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers and Bird’s Nest

Draughtsman

• Wybrand Hendriks

Production Place

• Amsterdam

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Watercolour and body colour, partially gone over with yellow-tinged gum (arabic?), over traces of black chalk or charcoal, partially indented with a stylus

Material

• gouache
• watercolours
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• watercolour painting
• brush drawing
• pencil drawing
• primary coat

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• autonomous drawing

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert unten rechts (mit dem Pinsel in Braun): W: Hendriks, Fecit.

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet unten links (mit Bleistift): Wyb Hendricks / 1780 // 17'' 10''' - 12'' 10'''
Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• still life

Primary

• 41A6711 flowers in a vase

Secondary

• 25G411(VIOLA TRICOLOR) cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers (VIOLA TRICOLOR)
• 25G411(NARCISSUS PSEUDONARCISSUS) cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers (NARCISSUS PSEUDONARCISSUS)
• 25G411(TULIP) cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers (TULIP)
• 25F711(SMALL TORTOISESHELL) insects (SMALL TORTOISESHELL)
• 25F32(+421) song-birds (+ nest, den, burrow)