Justus van Huysum (1659-1716)

Lilies, roses, carnations and other flowers in a glass vase on a stone ledge with a butterfly

Details

Justus van Huysum (1659-1716)
Lilies, roses, carnations and other flowers in a glass vase on a stone ledge with a butterfly
bears signature 'Jan van Huysum'
oil on canvas
27 x 21¼in. (64 x 54cm.)

Provenance

with Karl Haberstock, Berlin.
Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, by 1930 and by descent to his daughter Baroness Bentinck van Schoonheten.
The Bentinck-Thyssen Collection; Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1995, lot 110.

Literature

R. Heinemann, Collection Schloß Rohoncz, 1937, I, no. 204, as Jan van Huysum.

Exhibited

Manchester, City Art Museum, Exhibition of 17th-century Dutch Flower Painting, (date and number unknown), according to a label on the reverse, as Jan van Huysum.
Munich, Neue Pinakothek, Sammlung Schloß Rohoncz, 1930. no. 161, as Jan van Huysum.
Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Choix de la Collection Bentinck, 1970, no. 29, plate 16, as Jan van Huysum.
Dsseldorf, Kuntsmuseum, Die Sammlung Bentinck-Thyssen, 23 October 1970-3 January 1971, no. 27, as Jan van Huysum.
Bielefeld, Museum fr Kulturgeschichte, Aus Hollands großer Malerei, 1973, no. 10, as Jan van Huysum.
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage; Paris, Musée Marmottan; Tokyo, Kumamoto-Toyama-Miyagi; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; and Luxemburg, Musée de l'Etat, 1986-7, La Collection Bentinck-Thyssen, De Breughel à Guardi, no. 48, as Jan van Huysum.

Lot Essay

Always exhibited and published as the work of Jan van Huysum, the present painting is now agreed to be the work of his father Justus. Painted shortly before Justus' death in 1716, this vibrant still life bears stylistic similarities to the paintings of his two sons, Jan and Jacob, who shared a studio with their father. Thus, it is possible that Jan may have contributed to the picture.

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