Houston, TX – The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), the first large- scale exhibition devoted to Jan van Huysum’s work, opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Sunday, February 18.  Van Huysum is renowned for the tremendous realism with which he painted elaborate floral and fruit arrangements, and was said to be the most highly paid Dutch artist of all time.  The exhibition is organized by the Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and is on view at the MFAH’s Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main Street, through May 20, 2007.