Jan Van Huysum Vase Of Flowers

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Jan van huysum vase of flowers.

There are more than 30 species in the vase from florid roses peonies mauve and red poppies to the more humble primroses apple blossom and bachelor s buttons. A celebration of nature an entertaining puzzle and a display of wealth culture and fashion. Van huysum is after and achieves excess. The flowers nearly overripe quality attests both to nature s bounty and its transience.

1718 20 oil on canvas 24 x 31 in. Arranged in a terracotta vase displaying an antique relief jan van huysum included flowers from all seasons of the year roses anemones hyacinths tulips and more and painted them directly from life. Jan van huysum was a dutch painter. Jan van huysum s daughter francina margaretha van huysum was also a flower painter and may have assisted her father in his work.

61 x 79 cm dulwich picture gallery london speakers. He had access to the main plant nurseries in his home town and in haarlem close by and grew specimen flowers in his own garden. Jan van huysum vase with flowers c. Open content images tend to be large in file size.

Jan van huysum dutch 1682 1749 54 6 40 6 cm 21 1 2 16 in 78 pa 66. Vase of flowers is a painting by the dutch artist jan van huysum the painting is a still life and depicts a vase of late spring flowers including roses and iris. He was the brother of jacob van huysum the son of the flower painter justus van huysum and the grandson of jan van huysum i who is said to have been expeditious in decorating doorways screens and vases. Unlike most dutch still life specialists jan van huysum insisted on working out the details of his paintings from close study of the world around him.

Van huysum lived in amsterdam the centre of culture trade and scientific exploration especially in horticulture. The painting was in the collection of the galleria palatina in palazzo pitti in florence until its 1943 theft by the retreating wehrmacht following the allied invasion of italy in 1943. The dutch fascination with nature is described in a riotous display of beautiful and exotic flowers arranged in a terracotta vase displaying an antique relief jan van huysum included flowers from all seasons of the year roses anemones hyacinths tulips and more and painted them directly from life the flowers nearly overripe quality attests both to nature s bounty and its transience.