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Flowers in an Urn Decorated with Putti, on a Plinth

Jan van Huysum

early 18th century

Flowers in an Urn Decorated with Putti, on a Plinth by Jan van Huysum

Medium

Pen and black ink and brush and black and brown ink washes, over red chalk, on cream laid paper

Dimensions

38.5 × 29.9 cm (15 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

149035

Rights

Public Domain

About the Artist

Jan van Huysum · 16821749

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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