Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

Still Life with Flowers and Fruit by Jan van Huysum

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 78.7 x 61.3 cm (31 x 24 1/8 in.) framed: 104.1 x 86.4 x 7.6 cm (41 x 34 x 3 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CNE-B

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of Philip and Lizanne Cunningham

Accession Number

1996.80.1

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...

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