A Fruit Piece

by After Jan Van Huysum

$2,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A very fine mezzotint 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 unchanged today. Jan

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