Jar with Cotton Grass

• Jar with Cotton Grass
• Fluffy Flowers in a Jug

SK-A-2950

signature: ‘Witsen’

Witsen convincingly rendered the brilliant light reflection on the shiny earthenware jug with only a few touches of white paint, while the woolly grass and fern leaves appear soft and cuddly. Witsen began painting still lifes, like this one, when his cityscapes and landscapes found fewer buyers after the outbreak of World War i.

painter: Willem Witsen

c. 1916

olieverf op doek

• height 44 cm x width 37 cm
• depth 6.9 cm

A. van Wezel Bequest, Amsterdam

bequest 1922-04

Public domain

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20028478