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Still Life with Flowers
Also titled Stilleven met bloemen
Jan van Huysum (Amsterdam, 1682–1749)
1723
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 81 cm x width 61 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
In the 18th century, Van Huysum brought the extremely popular genre of flower painting to great heights. Instead of the usual dark background, he used a light one with a park landscape, creating the impression that the flowers are set out-of-doors on a balustrade. The décor here consists of a statue of Flora, the goddess of flowers, some cursorily painted foliage and a pond.
