DETAILS
- Artist
- Jan van Huysum
- Date
- 1700
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and brush and black and brown ink washes, over red chalk, on cream laid paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- 38.5 × 29.9 cm (15 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- Holland
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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