Arcadian Landscape with Figures Making Music
Jan van Huysum
early 18th century
Medium
Pen and gray ink and watercolor. Broad framing line in black ink
Dimensions
sheet: 9 3/16 x 13 9/16 in. (23.4 x 34.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Van Day Truex Fund, 2008
Accession Number
2008.476
Tags
MenWomenLandscapes
About the Artist
Jan van Huysum
Van Huysum is known for his detailed still-lifes, consisting of luxuriously composed flowers in a classical syle vase, standing on a stone plinth or table, often in a niche. Early works such as Flower Still-life (1706; Hamburg, Kunsthalle), show a traditional, symmetrical pictorial composition. This and other early flower and fruit still-lifes reveal the influence of Cornelis de Heem and Abraham M...