Lot 118
  • 118

Nicolas Struyk

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Nicolas Struyk
  • three framed studies of flowers with butterflies
  • All watercolor with some pen and ink and touches of gum arabic, over traces of black chalk

Condition

Have not taken out of frame. They are laid down. Iris: okay; Rose: one small light brown spot by upper left butterfly, one or two other tiny spots; Carnation: two spots right of flower.
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Catalogue Note

According to a label on the back of the frames, these were taken from an album titled Vertooning der Inlansche Insecten, signed N. Struyk and dated 1715.