Still Life with Flowers, Fruit, a Great Tit and a Mouse

Still Life with Flowers, Fruit, a Great Tit and a Mouse

RP-T-1991-43

Herman Henstenburg earned his living baking pies, the takeaway meal of the period. He painted his delightful watercolours of flowers, fruit and insects purely for pleasure. Henstenburg developed a special kind of watercolour paint that was so bright and powerful, a contemporary remarked that it rivalled oil paint. His superb still lifes were famous among collectors in his own day, and far beyond his hometown of Hoorn.

draughtsman: Herman Henstenburgh

c. 1700 - c. 1710

potlood, penseel in waterverf en dekverf in kleuren, gouache

height 430 mm x width 336 mm

Gift of J.E.C. Schook, Bilthoven and J.S.M. Aubert, Bilthoven

gift 1991

Public domain

Inv.; …; collection Mr or Mrs Tollius Bennet;{Note RKD.} by descent through the family to Johan Elius Christoph Schook (1914-1993) and Frederica Willemina Jeanne Adèle Schook, née Tollius Glusenkamp (1908-1993), Bilthoven; by whom donated to the museum, 1991

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