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Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
Also titled Stilleven met bloemen en vruchten
Jan van Huysum (Amsterdam, 1682–1749)
c. 1728
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 66.5 cm x width 52 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- 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
As his career progressed, Van Huysum produced floral still lifes that were increasingly exuberant. His palette became lighter and more transparent and he set his still lifes against a park-like background. Here the fruit, grapevine and hollyhocks are arranged so loosely and precariously that they risk tumbling from the marble plinth.
