Jan van Huysum

Arcadian Landscape with Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man

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1114 voorzijde

Jan van Huysum
Arcadian Landscape with Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man

On view in Room 11

The apostles Peter and John are on their way to the temple, when they come across a lame beggar. Instead of giving the man money, they heal him. They are performing their miracle in a southern forest landscape, with a waterfall, rocks and classical temples.

Van Huysum specialised in still-lifes, but he also painted this type of landscape. This work belongs with another painting showing a similar idealised world that is reminiscent of Italy.

Technical details
1114 voorzijde

Jan van Huysum
Arcadian Landscape with Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man

On view in Room 11

Gift of Mrs C.C.M. de Bièvre-Duijndam to the Friends of the Mauritshuis Foundation, 1997
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Details

General information
Jan van Huysum (Amsterdam 1682 - 1749 Amsterdam)
Arcadian Landscape with Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man
painting
1114
Room 11
Material and technical details
oil
canvas
52 x 71 cm
Inscriptions
lower right: Jan Van Huysum / fecit Amsterdam / 1724 en 1725

Provenance

Private collection, Wisconsin (sale New York, Sotheby's, 8 January 1981, lot 32 with pendant); Robert Noortman Gallery, Maastricht; gift of Mrs C.C.M. de Bièvre-Duijndam to the Friends of the Mauritshuis Foundation, 1997; on long-term loan from the the Friends of the Mauritshuis Foundation, since 1997