About this artwork
Adapting Seurat’s signature drawing method, Lemmen combined Realist and decorative techniques in this portrait of Anna Boch, a grande dame of the Belgian art scene. Born into an upper-middle-class family dedicated to music and the visual arts, Boch played the piano, organ, and violin and was a painter associated with the Belgian Neo-Impressionists. In 1885 she joined Les XX (The Twenty), a group of artists dissatisfied with the strictures of the official Salon who had decided to exhibit together, and was its sole female member. A promoter of the work of Vincent van Gogh, she bought his Red Vineyard painting in 1890, thought to be the only sale the artist made during his lifetime.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Georges Lemmen
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Title
- Portrait of Anna Boch
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Place
- Belgium (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1894
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Medium
- Conté crayon on off-white laid paper
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Dimensions
- 34 × 29.8 cm (13 7/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Suzanne and Marjorie Pochter Fund
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Reference Number
- 2011.89
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/209692/manifest.json
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