Flowers in an Urn Decorated with Putti, on a Plinth

Prints and Drawings

early 18th century

Jan van Huysum
Dutch, 1682-1749

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Artist: Jan van Huysum
Title: Flowers in an Urn Decorated with Putti, on a Plinth
Place: Holland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Artist's working dates 1700–1749
Medium: Pen and black ink and brush and black and brown ink washes, over red chalk, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower left corner, in graphite: “A5414”; in pen and brown ink: “N.3936”; in graphite: “B No23”; lower right, in graphite: “25”
Dimensions: 38.5 × 29.9 cm (15 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.112
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Christopher White, The Flower Drawings of Jan van Huysum (F. Lewis Publishers, Limited: Leigh-on-Sea, 1964), p. 18, no. 87, pl. 35 (left).

London, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, May 17–Jun. 20, 1951, no. 31, pl. 8.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Drawings by Old Masters, 1953, Aug. 13–Oct. 25, 1953, p. 81, no. 330.
London, Arts Council, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of C. R. Rudolf, 1962, p. 21, cat. 106.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gifts of a Lifetime: 49 Old Masters Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection, Dec. 11,1998–Mar. 28,1999, checklist 23 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present, Sept. 12–Oct. 31, 1999, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 50, cat. 23 (ill.).

Carl Robert Rudolf (c. 1884–1974), London, 1962 [stamp (Lugt 2811b), recto, lower right, in black]; sold, Sotheby’s, May 21, 1963, lot 35, to Robert M. Light, Boston, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.

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