A bouquet of flowers in a terracotta vase

Details

Jan van Huysum (Amsterdam 1682-1749)
A bouquet of flowers in a terracotta vase
black chalk, grey wash, heightened with white, watermark Arms of Amsterdam
15¼ x 11¾ in. (387 x 298 mm.)

Provenance

With M. Knoedler & Co., New York (inv. CA-387).
Howard and Mary Joynt, Alexandria, Virginia, by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, From botany to bouquets: flowers in Northern Art, 1999, no. 34.

Descriptif du lot

It has been suggested that fully worked drawings of this type were made by van Huysum to demonstrate the possibilities of a composition to a prospective patron.
We are grateful to Dr. Sam Segal for providing additional provenance information.

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