# Study of Peonies [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SCHONGAUER, Martin]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Watercolour and body-colour, 254 x 334 mm ## Commentary Study of Peonies c. 1472 Watercolour and body-colour, 254 x 334 mm Private collection This watercolour was a study to the Madonna of the Rose Bush painted in 1473 \(Colmar\). When Dürer visited Schongauer in 1491 Schongauer was already dead but Dürer received several drawings of Schongauer from his brothers, among them this study. Dürer's studies of flowers in the first years of the 1500s reflects the knowledge of Schongauer' studies. ## Related artworks - [A Foolish Virgin]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Annunciate Angel]() - [Annunciate Madonna]() - [Apprentices Fighting]() - [Betrayal and Capture of Christ]() - [Carrying the Cross]() - [Censer]() - [Christ on the Cross with Four Angels]() - [Elephant]() - [Entombment]() - [Madonna and Child in a Rose Arbour]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()