Jan van Huysum (Amsterdam 1682-1749)

A bouquet of flowers in a terracotta vase resting on a ledge

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Jan van Huysum (Amsterdam 1682-1749)
A bouquet of flowers in a terracotta vase resting on a ledge
signed and dated 'Jan V huysum/fec. 1723'
pencil, black chalk, grey wash, squared in red and black chalk, brown ink framing lines
14¼ x 11 1/8 in. (36.1 x 28.2 cm.)

Provenance

with M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
Howard and Mary Joynt, Alexandria, Virginia, and by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, From botany to bouquets: flowers in Northern Art, 31 January-31 May 1999, no. 35.

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James Hastie

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Descriptif du lot

A rare example of a compositional drawing that is related to a painting, Flowers in an Urn now in the National Gallery of Art (A. Wheelock, Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1995, pp. 142-45).

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