Flowers in an Urn
Jan van Huysum
c. 1720/1722
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
overall: 79.9 x 60 cm (31 7/16 x 23 5/8 in.) framed: 99.7 x 80.6 x 8.2 cm (39 1/4 x 31 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CNE-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Adolph Caspar Miller Fund
Accession Number
1977.7.1
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...