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78.PA.67

Vase of Flowers

mid-18th century
Follower of Jan van Huysum (Dutch, 1682 - 1749)

Dutch artists invented the flower piece, a type of painting that remained popular throughout the 1700s and 1800s, primarily in France. Artists used flower paintings as vehicles for brilliant color and animated composition, usually displaying an intense realism.

Jan van Huysum was one of the most exuberant practitioners of the genre. Working in the 1700s, Van Huysum acquired the sophisticated taste and love of embellishment associated with the Rococo period in France. While flower pictures often carried moral messages, this picture and its probable companion also made by a follower of Van Huysum, Vase of Flowers, were conceived without didactic lessons for the viewer.

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Title:
Vase of Flowers
Artist/Maker:
Follower of Jan van Huysum (Dutch, 1682 - 1749)
Date:
mid-18th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Unframed: 54.6 × 40.6 cm (21 1/2 × 16 in.)Framed [Outer Dim]: 59.1 × 45.7 × 3.2 cm (23 1/4 × 18 × 1 1/4 in.)
Culture:
Dutch
Object Number:
78.PA.67
Mark(s):
Verso: upper left, white rectangular label, partly torn, printed in black: "THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM / Date: Mid-18th cent. / Medium: Oil on canvas / Dims: 21 1/2 x 16 in. / 54.5 x 41 cm / 17895 Pacific Coast Highway Malibu, CA 90265-5799 / Telephone 310 459-7611 / Telex 820268 Telefax 310 459 9413 / Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2112 Santa Monica, CA 90407-2112"; upper left, white oval label with blue border, printed in blue: “J. Chenue / French packer / [written in black:] Getty ex Sotheby / 10 Gt. St. Andrew Street / Shaftesbury Avenue / London, WC2”; upper right, black stamp: “55406 / 54”; upper right, white rectangular label, typewritten: “L.1623.42 -2 / Flower Piece No. 1 / Dutch School (Artist unknown) / Owner: J. Paul Getty”; center left, white rectangular label with red border, in black: “C 11322 / 2 / P. Getty”; center left, white rectangular label, written in black: “60”; lower right, white rectangular label, in blue: “G-23” (Getty Museum number); lower right, stamped in black: “PRODUCE OF [written in black:] Holland”
Alternate Titles:
Vase of Flowers (a pair) (Alternate Title)
Previous Attribution:
In the style of Jan van Huysum (Dutch, 1682 - 1749)
Department:
Paintings
Classification:
Painting
Object Type:
Painting

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743

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653

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