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Flowers in an Urn on a Plinth
1730s
Jan van Huysum
1682-1749
Dutch
Unknown
Brush and brown and white gouache over traces of black chalk on buff laid paper
Sheet: 18 7/8 × 14 1/8 inches (47.9 × 35.9 cm) Framed: 30 1/2 × 25 3/8 × 2 3/4 inches (77.5 × 64.5 × 7 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund
F79.5
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Markings
Inscribed, on verso: Jan van Huysum
Provenance
Sir Charles Greville [black collector's mark L. 549 on verso at lower left
Earl of Warwick (Warwick, England) [black collector's mark L. 2600 on recto at lower right]
E. Perman (Stockholm, Sweden)
private collection (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Adrian Ward-Jackson, Ltd. (London, England)
1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"Family Art Game." DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News. (April 10, 1983): p. 27 (ill).
Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 78-79, no. 29 (ill.).
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Jan van Huysum, Flowers in an Urn on a Plinth, 1730s, brush and brown and white gouache over traces of black chalk on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund, F79.5.
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