The girl sits in a chair facing a high window, supervised by a nursery maid. The artist's back is to the window.
 Thérèse Schwartze, Portrait of Geradine Marguerite van Hardenbroek, 1903 |
And here are a couple other portraits by Thérèse Schwartze.
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Thérèse Schwartze on Wikipedia
Blog: More portraits by Schwartze
Book: Thérèse Schwartze (Dutch Edition)
Website with more about the Thérèse Schwartze book
Thanks, Maaike Dirkx and Linda Crank
4 comments:
Thank you, James, for sharing these stunning portraits. This is more proof of the sad fact that woman artists have been overlooked and undervalued by collectors, curators and art historians for centuries. I'm a huge fan of John Singer Sargent (as many of us are); the examples posted here could easily hang next to his work without being at all harmed by the comparison.
A agree, Tom. I keep running across first-rate artists that are new to me. But I have a feeling she is quite well known in Amsterdam because she painted royal portraits. I owe a debt of gratitude to Maaike Dirkx and Linda Crank, who are dedicated, as I am, to bringing recognition to lesser-known realist painters from the past.
It looks like the maid is reading a book in the background. I wonder if she was reading aloud to help keep the model occupied
There is now an English translation of her biography: https://thereseschwartze.com/
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