Flowers in an Urn on a Plinth

Pen and brown ink with red chalk and wash depicts a dense bouquet of blossoms, leaves and trailing stems rising from a vase set on a stone plinth. Soft reddish and grey shading models the petals and the urn against a pale, faintly drawn background within a light grey mat.

Artist

Jan van Huysum

Date

early 18th century

Medium

Pen and black ink and brush and black and brown ink washes, over red chalk, on cream laid paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2051 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection