Lot 70: JUSTUS VAN HUYSUM THE ELDER AMSTERDAM 1659 - 1716

A STILL LIFE OF ROSES, SMALL MORNING GLORY, TULIPS, RED TURBAN CUP LILIES, AN IRIS AND OTHER FLOWERS, PEACHES AND PRUNES, ALL ON A STONE LEDGE

measurements note
48.8 by 64.4 cm.

signed lower right: J. .. Huysum

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Collection Rastoion-Bremond(?), Paris (according to a text on the reverse);
Anonymous sale, Frankfurt am Main, Rudolf Bangel, 12-13 February 1901, lot 35 (as Jan van Huysum);
Anonymous sale, Berlin, Spik, 20-22 October 2005, lot 435 (as Justus van Huysum).

NOTE

We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer for confirming the attribution to Justus van Huysum on the basis of photographs.

Justus van Huysum, father of the more famous Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), seemed to be primarily active as a painter of interior decorations, see for example the flower still lifes painted for Cannenburgh Castle in Vaassen.