Sketch for a Still Life of Fruit and Flowers

Sketch for a Still Life of Fruit and Flowers

RP-T-1899-A-4272

Jan van Huysum made this drawing with a stick of charcoal soaked in linseed oil. This material was traditionally recommended for drawing sketches. The oil prevents the drawn lines from blurring and lends them greater intensity. The drawing served as a model for a painting. Van Huysum here indicated the most important colours in transparent watercolour.

draughtsman: Jan van Huysum

c. 1725 - c. 1735

aquarel, penseel in waterverf in kleuren, geoliede houtskool

height 408 mm x width 320 mm

purchase 1899-12

Public domain

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