Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

SK-C-561

signature: ‘Jan Van Huysum fecit’

The flower still life was a very popular genre in the 18th century, which Van Huysum took to great heights. He filled this painting almost to the edges with flowers and fruit. The colour of the leaf on the left is odd. This is because the yellow pigment Van Huysum mixed with blue to make green has faded under the influence of (sun)light. As a result, the originally green passages in this painting are now blue.

painter: Jan van Huysum

c. 1721

olieverf op paneel

• height 81 cm x width 61 cm
• depth 9 cm

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Public domain

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20029078