Johanna Helena Herolt

[2] Though Johann Graff joined his family later, in 1686 Merian left her husband and moved with her two daughters and her mother to a religious community of Labadists in Wieuwerd, Friesland.

[1] In 1691 the four women moved to Amsterdam, where they set up a studio painting flowers and botanical subjects, continuing Merian's work on "The Caterpillar Book".

[3] Johanna Helena Herolt's watercolors reveal a fascination not only with flowers, but also with insect metamorphosis, as did her mother, Maria Sibylla Merian.

[1] A numbered series of 49 drawings signed by Herolt on vellum are in the collection of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, in Brunswick.

The focal point of the painting is the crown imperial, and it reveals its delicate red-veined petals with flower’s stamen and pistil.

[citation needed] In this series, Herolt depicts flies at various stages of their life cycles, such as larvae, caterpillars, and chrysalises.

As a result of Herolt's access to wild nature, her works are incredibly lifelike, and she avoids creating an idealized illusion.

Even rare tulip varieties, such as Semper augustus, took two years to grow and bloom, yet just ten bulbs were worth more than a house.

[citation needed] Johanna Helena Herolt produced a sheet of yellow and purple verbascum with the life-cycle of a moth.

She chose a subject that is clearly related to her mother's book on moths and caterpillars, Die Raupen wunderbare Verwandlung und Sonderbare Blumennahrung.