Still Life with Fruit
n.d.
Medium
Black chalk and watercolor on cream white paper. Framing line in pen and black ink
Dimensions
19 1/16 x 14 3/4 in. (48.4 x 37.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958
Accession Number
59.23.53
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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...