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Johanna Helena Herolt Graff (Frankfurt 1668-after 1702)
Lot 134

Johanna Helena Herolt Graff (Frankfurt 1668-after 1702)

Still life with a grasshoper and a ladybug perched on branches arranged in a Delft bowl with cherries, pears, peaches, blackcurrants, redcurrants and strawberries

Closed24 January 2008

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Johanna Helena Herolt Graff (Frankfurt 1668-after 1702)
Still life with a grasshoper and a ladybug perched on branches arranged in a Delft bowl with cherries, pears, peaches, blackcurrants, redcurrants and strawberries
signed with initials 'J.H.H.'
black lead, watercolor, bodycolor. heightened with gum arabic, on vellum, pen and brown ink framing lines
11 x 14½ in. (280 x 369 mm.)

Private collection, Belgium.
With Otto Wertheimer, Paris, 1956.
Dr. Max Schmidheiny, Heerbrugg, Switzerland.

Specialist note

Johanna Helena Herolt, née Graff, was the eldest daughter of the painter Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). Her work was influenced by her mother whom Herolt accompanied to Surinam in 1711. 49 drawings from a numbered series, signed by Herolt and in the same technique and on vellum are in the Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum, Brunswick. This series was possibly commissioned by the Menonite Agnes Block (1629-1704), an important breeder of rare plants near Utrecht. Others drawings by Herolt are in the British Museum and the University of Amsterdam.