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\n\tThe Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired two Dutch still lifes of note\u2014including one that the institution said it \u201chas been seeking over two decades,\u201d according to a press release announcing the news.<\/p>\n
\n\tJan Davidsz. de Heem\u2019s Glass Vase with Flowers and Fruit<\/em> (ca. 1673\u201374) is one of nine similar paintings that demonstrate the artist\u2019s \u201cskill of illusionism and accurate botanical and entomological observations,\u201d per the release, and was unrecorded until it came out of a private collection in Germany in 2022. The arrangement includes flame tulips (\u201cstill a highly prized flower in the Netherlands\u201d) as well as plums, berries, roses, morning glory, milk thistle, and honeysuckle.<\/p>\n \n\tLook closely and you will also see insects going about their business at minuscule scale. \u201cButterflies and caterpillars, associated with metamorphosis, represented the transience of life and the soul freed from greed and desire,\u201d the Getty\u2019s release reads. \u201cAnd, according to literary tradition, ants were respected as hardworking and symbolized diligence and frugality.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tDe Heem\u2019s painting is already on view in the Getty Center\u2019s West Pavilion, and it will be joined at a later date by the other newly acquired Dutch work, Still Life with Assorted Fruit<\/em> (1597\/98\u20131660) by Pieter Claesz, a still life painter who influenced De Heem. The assemblage of grapes, strawberries, gooseberries, cherries, and apples signals its status as a style of still life known in Dutch as a \u201cfruitagje.\u201d As the Getty notes, \u201cStill lifes that portrayed a variety of food often alluded to abundance and prosperity\u2014comforting notions during periods of war and religious upheaval.\u201d<\/p>\n Still Life with Assorted Fruit <\/em>was in a private English collection until the mid-20th century and moved to the Lester L. Weindling collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings in New York. The Getty acquired the work in an auction at Sotheby\u2019s last month for $1.64 million, more than its $800,000\u2013$1,200,000 estimate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/getty-museum-acquires-dutch-still-lifes-1234779559\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/De-Heem.jpg?w=1024″] The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired two Dutch still lifes of note\u2014including one that the institution said it \u201chas been seeking over two decades,\u201d according to a press release announcing the news. Jan Davidsz. de Heem\u2019s Glass Vase with Flowers and Fruit (ca. 1673\u201374) is one of nine similar paintings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1861637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}