Johannes Christian ROEDIG (1750-1802)

Title: Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
Date: 1770s–1780s
Technique: Oil on panel
Signed: Lower left “J. C. Roeding”

Painting dimensions: 80 × 62 cm
Overall dimensions with frame: 112 × 94 cm

Provenance: Important aristocratic collection

Johannes Christian Roedig was an important Dutch painter of flower and fruit still lifes. He was a pupil of the Hague Rococo allegorical painter Dirk van der Aa and a successor to the outstanding Amsterdam flower painter Jan van Huysum, whose works are represented in major collections including the Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery in London, and museums in Dresden, Berlin, Vienna, and Boston. Roedig’s realistic still lifes are distinguished by vivid coloration and carefully conceived, richly detailed compositions.

In 1782 he became a teacher—and later secretary—of the Hague Teekenacademie, the predecessor of today’s Royal Academy of Art. Roedig’s paintings are more often found in private collections, most frequently among American and British collectors.