Landscape with Goats, Goatherd and Ruins
Jan van Huysum
n.d.
Medium
Pen and black ink over graphite, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
9.5 × 10.9 cm (3 3/4 × 4 5/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83789
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jan van Huysum · 1682–1749
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...