Immaculate Conception Size:small forget-me-nots and roses - and

forget-me-nots and roses - and the marble ledge

Van Huysum's paintings often bear a double date

both of whom seem to have been subsumed into their more talented brother's studio)

that Wouwermans acquired sketches and notebooks of Van Laer's after the latter's death

Some of the elements in this sketch and in the final painting seem to reference motifs by Paolo Veronese (the angels lifting the grave's lid)

Immaculate Conception Size:small forget-me-nots and roses - andProbably an early copy of a lost work by Murillo. A lost picture almost identical to this, except for the fact that the Virgin is looking heavenward, is recorded in an engraving by E. de Paula Marti of 1794.