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Jan Toorop (1858 - 1928)

Marouflé: 70,5 x 43,5 cm
Signed lower right

Provenance

Provenance: Private collection Great Britain; Private collection The Netherlands.

Literature

Catalogue Impressionists and post-impressionists from The Netherlands, edited by The Seibu Museum of Art, The Tokyo Shimbun (Japan 1980), no. 58.

Exhibition

- 'Impressionists and post-impressionists from The Netherlands' April 19 - May 21, 1980 at The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, no. 58
- 'Jan Toorop (1858-1928)', travelling exhibition curated by Victorine Hefting, along museums in Tokyo, Kumamoto, Kamakura and Mie with a closure at the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh in Amsterdam, September 30, 1988 - April 9, 1989

Detail Description

Description in the catalogue of the exhibition in Tokyo in 1980, written by Ronald de Leeuw:

"The woman gazing through the curtain is Annie Hall, an English art student whom Toorop met in Brussels in 1894 and was married to in May 1886. Possibly the picture was painted in 1885, during Toorop's second trip to England, when he stayed at Lissadell, Kenley, the home of the Hall family in Surrey. The work is one of a number of paintings and watercolours in which Toorop used his future wife - and sometimes her family - as a model."