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OIL PAINTINGS BY GENRE - Paintings of Flowers |
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Paintings of Flowers
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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.
The most notable flowers painter was Jan van Huysum, 1682–1749,also a painter of still life and landscapes. 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.
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. |
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| Irises, 1890 |
| Oil on Canvas, 92x72 cm |
| Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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GOV021 |
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30x24 inches |
| price: |
305 USD BUY painting |
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| Flowers, 1868 |
| Oil on canvas, 51 1/8 x 37 3/8 inches (130 x 95 cm) |
| Private collection |
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BAF003 |
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26x19 inches |
| price: |
395 USD BUY painting |
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| Roses, 1842 |
| Oil on canvas, 45x37 cm |
| Private collection |
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| painting: |
WAF001 |
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| size: |
22x18 inches |
| price: |
375 USD BUY painting |
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| Vase of Flowers , 1645 |
| Oil on canvas, 27.4 x 22.24 inches [69.6 x 56.5 cm] |
| National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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HED005 |
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28x23 inches |
| price: |
395 USD BUY painting |
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