Jan van Huijsum

Illustration number 1001213789
Dimensions: 553x650 pixels
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Illustration number 1001213790
Dimensions: 520x650 pixels
Copyright

Illustration number 0000176241
Dimensions: 2303x2726 pixels
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Object category

painting

Physical connection Reference in ‘composite artworks’: artworks that are/were connected, such as alterpieces, decorative pieces incorporated in panelling, and works of art that were intended to be displayed together, such as pendants and series.

pendant

Jan van Huijsum, Fruit op een marmeren blad en in een rieten mand met bloemen en een koolwitje (pendant)

Support/medium

copper, oil paint

Shape/dimensions

rectangle (portrait format) 47 x 40,5 cm

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

signed and dated lower left: Jan Van Huijsum fecit 1742
on the plinth in purple brown; V and H partly hidden

Current attribution: Jan van Huijsum

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: dated 1742 (1742)

according to letters regarding the commission, painted in intervals between 1740 and 1743. (Segal, 2006)
Created in: Amsterdam

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Rozen en andere bloemen in een terracotta vaas
English title: Roses and other flowers in a terracotta pot
Keywords: flower piece, terracotta, pot, a marble top, bunch of grapes, red admiral, bird's nest, egg, Queen of Spain Fritillary, cabbage rose, white rose, garden bear's ear, poppy anemone, opium poppy, orange blossom, wasp, hyacinth, dwarf morning glory, fly, ant

Artistically related

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

related to
Jan van Huijsum, Bloemen in een terracotta pot en een vogelnest op een stenen plint

Provenance

Commissioned by If the work in question was commissioned, and this is known, then the patron is noted here.: Mecklenburg, Christian Ludwig II hertog von

commissioned by the duke via his agent, A.N. van Haften. The painting and its pendant (117794) are well documented in correspondence between the artist, the Duke and the Duke's agent between 1740 and 1744.

Collection(s)

private collection Christian Ludwig II hertog von Mecklenburg, Schloss Schwerin
1744 - Commissioned art work, part of a pair. Purchased from the artist by agent A.N. van Haften on behalf of Duke Christian Ludwig von Mecklenburg, together with the pendant for 2000 guilders; confiscated by the French army in 1806, returned in 1815
private collection baron von Mecklenburg, Ludwigslust
- 1986 noted as in the collection at Ludwigslust (Smith, 1835, p. 483, no. 92)
Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin , inv./cat.nr G 439
1986 - Schloss Ludwigslust was acquired by Staatliches Museum Schwerin in 1986 (http://www.museum-schwerin.com/schwerin-state-museum-art-collections-castles-and-gardens/ludwigslust-castle/)

Exhibitions and literature

Literature

Smith 1829-1842 , vol. 6 (1835), p. 483, no. 92
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 741
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 18 (1925), p. 208
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1927 (English edition) , vol. 10 (1928), p. 354, no. 73
Schwerin 1951 , p. 78, no. 124
Grant 1954 , p. 19, no. 33
Schwerin 1962 , no. 166
Jürss 1982 , p. 104, no. 163
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 116
Von Berswordt-Wallrabe 2000 , p. 58, 60, ill., 122, no. 45 , p. 60 full page colour illustration
Segal et al. 2006 , p. 266-268, F39., ill. , full page colour illustration

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001213789)
BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001213790)
BD/RKD/0674 - ONK/Still Life Documentation Sam Segal/Netherlands (upon request) (img.nr. 0000176241)

Project: Segal Still-Life Project
Gerson Digital : Germany (Ausbreitung)

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Creation date: 2008-10-03; Last modified date: 2019-12-16

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