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Jar with Cotton Grass
Also titled Kruikje met pluisbloemen
Willem Witsen (Amsterdam, 1860–1923)
c. 1916
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 6.9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- A. van Wezel Bequest, Amsterdam
- 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
Witsen convincingly rendered the brilliant light reflection on the shiny earthenware jug with only a few touches of white paint, while the woolly grass and fern leaves appear soft and cuddly. Witsen began painting still lifes, like this one, when his cityscapes and landscapes found fewer buyers after the outbreak of World War i.
