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Six Putti with Flowers and Fruit and Attributes of the Art of Drawing

Jurriaan Andriessen

1782

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

h 80cm × w 200.5cm × t 4cm × d 9.5cm

Collection

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Materials

canvas; oil paint (paint)

Object Type

painting; overdoor

Subject Matter

cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'; symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ drawing

Production Place

Amsterdam

Acquisition Method

purchase

Acquired

1957

Notes

buitenmaat: diepte 9,5 cm (drager incl. SK-L-6430)

Collection Type

paintings

About Jurriaan Andriessen

1742–1819 • Kingdom of the Netherlands

A painter and draftsman known mostly for his painted wallpapers. He eventually owned his own successful factory; his designs followed the prevailing 18th-century taste for arcadian and native Dutch landscapes with small figures, and especially for decorative architecture. He was active in the Amsterdam Tekenacademie, first as a student, then as a teacher, and, by 1784, as co-director with Cornelis Buys. None of his designs for theatrical scenery and properties, done later in his career, remain today.