Jan van Huysum

Arcadian Landscape with Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man

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

1724-1725 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.

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

1724-1725 On view in Room 11

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General information
Jan van Huysum (Amsterdam 1682 - 1749 Amsterdam)
Arcadian Landscape with Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man
1724-1725
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