A Horseshoe Crab

Prints and Drawings

1640/80

Pieter Holsteyn, the younger
Dutch, 1614–1687

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Artist: Pieter Holsteyn, the younger
Title: A Horseshoe Crab
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1640–1680
Medium: Watercolor and opaque watercolor on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed center, below the head, in pen and brown ink: “PH”; lower right, in pen and brown ink: “zeespinnekop”
Dimensions: 16.3 × 21.4 cm (6 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Regenstein Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2020.264
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Thea Vignau-Wilberg, Pieter Holsteijn the Younger, Haarlem 1614–1673 Amsterdam: Diverse Crawling and Flying Animals (Munich: Daxer & Marschall, 2013), p. 34, no. 5 (color ill.).

Possibly, Dr. P.; sold, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, Jan. 24, 1887, lot 95 [according to Daxer & Marschall, but without illustrations, this is impossible to confirm]. Private collection, Winterthur and Zurich, to 1957; by descent to a private collection, Winterthur and Meilen, to 2004; by descent; sold by Daxer & Marschall Kunsthandel, Munich, to a private collector, New York, 2013; sold through Daxer & Marschall Kunsthandel, Munich, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

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