Jan van Huysum Painting Reproductions 1 of 2
1682-1749
Dutch Baroque Painter
Jan van Huysum (April 15, 1682 - February 8, 1749), Dutch painter, was born at Amsterdam.
He was the son of Justus van Huysum, who is said to have been expeditious in decorating doorways, screens and vases. A picture by Justus is preserved in the gallery of Brunswick, representing "Orpheus and the Beasts in a wooded landscape," and here we have some explanation of his son's fondness for landscapes of a conventional and Arcadian kind; for Jan van Huysum, though skilled as a painter of still life, believed himself to possess the genius of a landscape painter.
Half his pictures in public galleries are landscapes, views of imaginary lakes and harbours with impossible ruins and classic edifices, and woods of tall and motionless trees-the whole very glossy and smooth, and entirely lifeless. The earliest dated work of this kind is that of 1717, in the Louvre, a grove with maidens culling flowers near a tomb, ruins of a portico, and a distant palace on the shores of a lake bounded by mountains.
It is doubtful whether any artist ever surpassed van Huysum in representing fruit and flowers. It has been said that his fruit has no savour and his flowers have no perfume in other words, that they are hard and artificial--but this is scarcely true. In substance fruit and flower are delicate and finished imitations of nature in its more subtle varieties of matter. The fruit has an incomparable blush of down, the flowers have a perfect delicacy of tissue.
Van Huysum, too, shows supreme art in relieving flowers of various colours against each other, and often against a light and transparent background. He is always bright, sometimes even gaudy. Great taste and much grace and elegance are apparent in the arrangement of bouquets and fruit in vases adorned with has reliefs or in baskets on marble tables. There is exquisite and faultless finish everywhere. But what van Huysum has not is the breadth, the bold effectiveness, and the depth of thought of de Heem, from whom he descends through Abraham Mignon.
Some of the finest of van Huysum's fruit and flower pieces have been in English private collections: those of 1723 in the earl of Ellesmere's gallery, others of 1730-1732 in the collections of Hope and Ashburton. One of the best examples is now in the National Gallery, London (1736-1737). No public museum has finer and more numerous specimens than the Louvre, which boasts of four landscapes and six panels with still life; then come Berlin and Amsterdam with four fruit and flower pieces; then St Petersburg, Munich, Hanover, Dresden, the Hague, Brunswick, Vienna, Carlsruhe and Copenhagen.
He was the son of Justus van Huysum, who is said to have been expeditious in decorating doorways, screens and vases. A picture by Justus is preserved in the gallery of Brunswick, representing "Orpheus and the Beasts in a wooded landscape," and here we have some explanation of his son's fondness for landscapes of a conventional and Arcadian kind; for Jan van Huysum, though skilled as a painter of still life, believed himself to possess the genius of a landscape painter.
Half his pictures in public galleries are landscapes, views of imaginary lakes and harbours with impossible ruins and classic edifices, and woods of tall and motionless trees-the whole very glossy and smooth, and entirely lifeless. The earliest dated work of this kind is that of 1717, in the Louvre, a grove with maidens culling flowers near a tomb, ruins of a portico, and a distant palace on the shores of a lake bounded by mountains.
It is doubtful whether any artist ever surpassed van Huysum in representing fruit and flowers. It has been said that his fruit has no savour and his flowers have no perfume in other words, that they are hard and artificial--but this is scarcely true. In substance fruit and flower are delicate and finished imitations of nature in its more subtle varieties of matter. The fruit has an incomparable blush of down, the flowers have a perfect delicacy of tissue.
Van Huysum, too, shows supreme art in relieving flowers of various colours against each other, and often against a light and transparent background. He is always bright, sometimes even gaudy. Great taste and much grace and elegance are apparent in the arrangement of bouquets and fruit in vases adorned with has reliefs or in baskets on marble tables. There is exquisite and faultless finish everywhere. But what van Huysum has not is the breadth, the bold effectiveness, and the depth of thought of de Heem, from whom he descends through Abraham Mignon.
Some of the finest of van Huysum's fruit and flower pieces have been in English private collections: those of 1723 in the earl of Ellesmere's gallery, others of 1730-1732 in the collections of Hope and Ashburton. One of the best examples is now in the National Gallery, London (1736-1737). No public museum has finer and more numerous specimens than the Louvre, which boasts of four landscapes and six panels with still life; then come Berlin and Amsterdam with four fruit and flower pieces; then St Petersburg, Munich, Hanover, Dresden, the Hague, Brunswick, Vienna, Carlsruhe and Copenhagen.
46 Jan van Huysum Paintings
Fruit and Flowers c.1720
Oil Painting
$2834
$2834
Canvas Print
$56.43
$56.43
SKU: HUY-2722
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 59.5 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 59.5 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom
Still Life with Flowers 1723
Oil Painting
$3977
$3977
Canvas Print
$57.26
$57.26
SKU: HUY-2723
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 81 x 61 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 81 x 61 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bouquet of Flowers Against a Park Landscape n.d.
Oil Painting
$6708
$6708
Canvas Print
$57.40
$57.40
SKU: HUY-2724
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 60 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 60 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Fruit Piece 1722
Oil Painting
$5023
$5023
Canvas Print
$57.81
$57.81
SKU: HUY-3903
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 79.4 x 61 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 79.4 x 61 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Vase of Flowers 1722
Oil Painting
$6318
$6318
Canvas Print
$56.97
$56.97
SKU: HUY-3904
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 79.5 x 61 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 79.5 x 61 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Still Life of Flowers and a Bird's Nest on a Pedestal n.d.
Oil Painting
$4038
$4038
Canvas Print
$50.19
$50.19
SKU: HUY-4844
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80.5 x 61 cm
Private Collection
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80.5 x 61 cm
Private Collection
Flowers in a Vase 1726
Oil Painting
$3929
$3929
Canvas Print
$57.26
$57.26
SKU: HUY-4845
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 60 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 60 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom
Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn 1724
Oil Painting
$3851
$3851
Canvas Print
$56.14
$56.14
SKU: HUY-4846
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 59.6 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 59.6 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
The Rape of Proserpine n.d.
Oil Painting
$3630
$3630
Canvas Print
$59.05
$59.05
SKU: HUY-4847
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80.7 x 62.8 cm
Private Collection
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80.7 x 62.8 cm
Private Collection
Flowers and Fruit c.1715/30
Oil Painting
$1799
$1799
Canvas Print
$50.19
$50.19
SKU: HUY-4848
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 40 x 32.5 cm
Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 40 x 32.5 cm
Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France
A Basket with Flowers 1744
Oil Painting
$1591
$1591
Canvas Print
$50.19
$50.19
SKU: HUY-4849
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 26 x 17 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 26 x 17 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
A Basket of Fruit 1744
Oil Painting
$2226
$2226
Canvas Print
$60.85
$60.85
SKU: HUY-4850
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 55 x 44 cm
Private Collection
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 55 x 44 cm
Private Collection
Bouquet of Flowers n.d.
Oil Painting
$4886
$4886
Canvas Print
$60.43
$60.43
SKU: HUY-4851
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 89 x 71 cm
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, Austria
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 89 x 71 cm
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, Austria
Hollyhocks and Other Flowers in a Vase c.1702/20
Oil Painting
$2716
$2716
Canvas Print
$81.66
$81.66
SKU: HUY-4852
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 62.1 x 52.3 cm
National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 62.1 x 52.3 cm
National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Flowers 1722
Oil Painting
$3999
$3999
Canvas Print
$57.67
$57.67
SKU: HUY-4853
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 79 x 60 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 79 x 60 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Flowers and Fruit 1723
Oil Painting
$4325
$4325
Canvas Print
$57.40
$57.40
SKU: HUY-4854
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 60.5 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 60.5 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Vase of Flowers in a Niche c.1732/36
Oil Painting
$3977
$3977
SKU: HUY-4855
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: unknown
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: unknown
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Flowers in an Urn c.1720
Oil Painting
$3890
$3890
Canvas Print
$57.81
$57.81
SKU: HUY-4856
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 79.9 x 60 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 79.9 x 60 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit c.1715
Oil Painting
$4281
$4281
Canvas Print
$58.64
$58.64
SKU: HUY-4857
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 78.7 x 61.3 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 78.7 x 61.3 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Still Life of Flowers and Fruit c.1716/17
Oil Painting
$3477
$3477
Canvas Print
$57.11
$57.11
SKU: HUY-4858
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 79 x 59 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 79 x 59 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Flower Piece 1740
Oil Painting
$1853
$1853
SKU: HUY-4859
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: unknown
San Diego Museum of Art, California, USA
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: unknown
San Diego Museum of Art, California, USA
Still Life of Flowers 1734
Oil Painting
$3999
$3999
SKU: HUY-4860
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Flowers in a Terracotta Vase on a Marble Ledge 1730
Oil Painting
$4586
$4586
Canvas Print
$57.67
$57.67
SKU: HUY-4861
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 61 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: 80 x 61 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
A Still Life of Fruit in a Basket With Flowers ... n.d.
Oil Painting
$4461
$4461
SKU: HUY-4862
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Jan van Huysum
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection