Fruit piece with hazelnut, after 1760

About the Work

In the early nineteenth century, this drawing – like the still life “Still Life with Bunch of Grapes, Walnut and Peaches” (Inv.-Nr. 954) – was attributed to Jan van Huysum, a painter and draughtsman of quite some fame in the eighteenth. To be sure, the motifs are closely related to van Huysum’s and the work is also on a par with his in terms of quality. Yet already the wove paper alone reveals that he cannot have been the author. Invented around 1760, it lacks the ribbed structure of the laid paper common until then. The identity of the work’s true maker has yet to be established.