A Fruit Piece; A Flower Piece

by After Jan Van Huysum

$4,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A very rare pair of fine proof mezzotints after the work of Jan van Huysum: the last of the great Dutch masters'' Mitchell , the Phoenix of Flower Painters. Weyerman It is the fate of some painters to be celebrated in their lifetime only and to be disregarded by later generations...Other painters pass their lives in obscurity only to be acclaimed by a succeeding century. A few, a very few, achieve a fame which is universal in their own day, never falters, and remains

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