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Portrait of Jan van Huysum
Also titled Portret van Jan van Huysum
Arnold Boonen (Dordrecht, 1669–1729)
c. 1720
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 99.2 cm x width 84 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Private gift
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Jan van Huysum was the most famous flower still life painter of the 18th century. In this portrait he is in his late thirties, the age at which he enjoyed his first successes. Boonen may well have painted this in exchange for a floral still life. The stylish cloak and the curtain lend the painting a certain gravity, softened somewhat by the informality of the sitter’s open shirt.
