Italianate Landscape with Shepherd and Flock by Stream, Town in the Distance
Jan van Huysum
n.d.
Medium
Pen and gray ink, with brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
18.2 × 29.8 cm (7 3/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83793
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...