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Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
Also titled Stilleven met bloemen en vruchten
Jan van Os (Middelharnis, 1744–1808)
c. 1775 - c. 1800
- Medium
- paper, watercolor (paint)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 451 mm x width 325 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of C.P.D. Pape
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Jan van Os’ great model was the Amsterdam painter Jan van Huysum, who was active some forty years earlier. Unlike him, Van Os composed his still lifes with a light area in the middle. This watercolour was intended for sale to a collector as a fully fledged work of art. It is much too elaborate to be a preparatory drawing for a painting.
