Painting Detail
Basket of FruitArtist: Dael Jean Francois van
Medium: Painting, Oil on canvas, 61x51 cm
Date: Between 1801 and 1802
Genre: Fruits, Still Life
Source: The State Museum Fund, 1925
He was born in Antwerp in 1764, but went early to Paris and settled there. He was self-instructed in art, but made such progress that he soon distinguished himself at the exhibitions, on one occasion obtaining the prize of 4000 francs, and on two others, the large gold medal. His style is in the manner of Van Huysum and Van Spaendonck, although he did not confine himself strictly to fruit and flowers, but painted other subjects, in which such objects might with propriety be introduced.
Two of his pictures, which he painted for the Empress Joséphine, represent 'An Offering to Flora,' and 'The Tomb of Julia'; the latter is now in the Louvre.