Alliance Coat of Arms of Cornelis Calkoen and Maria van der Merct, Maria Moninckx, 1694
parchment (animal material), h 397mm × w 297mm More details
In this drawing the Amsterdam artist Maria Monninckx surrounded the alliance arms that unite the Calkoen and Van der Merct families with a spectacular coloured floral wreath. A tiny garden tiger moth, a red admiral butterfly and a stem sawfly flutter around it. She achieved the brilliant colour by applying various layers of paint over one another and adding a touch of gold here and there.