Jan van Huysum

Description

Jan van Huysum was one of the most outstanding Dutch flower painters of the eighteenth century. He was celebrated during his lifetime for his meticulously rendered flowers and the high level of realism of his paintings. Van Huysum worked directly from nature, an understandably slow process that could involve waiting for a season to return in order to finish certain flowers. The present drawing, executed with a free and lose hand, is characteristic of the drawings executed by van Huysum to prepare his paintings. In these drawings, Van Huysum explored arrangements of color and shape, and the flowers are rarely defined.