Jan Davidsz. De Heem

Hendrick Avercamp, Winter Landscape near a Village, about 1610–15. Oil on panel. 53.3 x 94.6 cm. Promised gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. TORONTO, April 29, 2019—For the first time in Canada, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents In the Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, an extraordinary collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. Opening Saturday, June 1,... [Lire la suite]

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (Dutch, 1606-1683/4), Still Life of flowers in a glass vase in a stone niche, Oil on oak panel, Grasset Collection. ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Dreamy landscapes and luscious still life paintings from one of the world’s greatest private collections join together in A Feast for the Eyes: European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, a stunning exhibition opening March 23 at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. The exhibition features 40 of the finest Old Master paintings by artists... [Lire la suite]

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606–1683/84), Still life, 1642, oil on panel, 43 x 57 cm. Private collection

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606–1683/84), Still life, Private collection 

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606–1683/84), Still life, 1653, Private collection

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606–1683/84), Still Life, 1650, oil on canvas, 88.9 x 71.1 cm © Joslyn Art Museum - Omaha, NE

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606–1683/84), A Richly Laid Table with Parrots, 1650, oil on canvas, 150 x 116 cm © Wien Museum, Austria

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606–1683/84), Momento Mori, circa 1630-1660, oil on panel, 11.3 x 16.9 cm © York Museums Trust, United Kingdom

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606–1683/84), Interior of a Room with a Young Man Seated at a Table, 1628, oil on panel, 60 x 82 cm © Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology - University of Oxford

Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Still life with fruit, c. 1640-1650, oil on canvas, 67.3 × 79.8 cm, inscribed in brown paint u.r.: J. D. de Heem f (dot above f), Felton Bequest, 1935 © National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne From the 1640s, de Heem was the most important and influential still-life painter in the Netherlands. This painting belongs to an iconographic type invented by him: the pronkstilleven, or sumptuous still life. This popular type of painting enlivened rooms of many Netherlandish homes. De Heem’s technical brilliance... [Lire la suite]