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The Grandmother or Portrait of Roos Van Wijnendaele, 1914

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 120.5 x 110.8 cm
  • Inv. 1958-O

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As a consequence of the photographic accuracy with which he portrayed his models, Gustave Van de Woestyne was much in demand as a portraitist. Here we see Roos Van Wijnendaele, the artist Edgar Gevaert’s grandmother on his mother’s side. At the time Van de Woestyne did the portrait she was almost 100 years old. It is striking in most of his portraits, and here too, that the face and hands are rendered with great precision while the clothing is less detailed. The pale and empty background against which the figure is shown was also something the artist used regularly.

Artist

Gustave Van de Woestyne RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ghent 1881 - Uccle 1947
painters (artists)AAT

Title The Grandmother or Portrait of Roos Van Wijnendaele
Date 1914
Period 20th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom right: GVE VAN DE WOESTIJNE / 1914
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1958-O
Acquisition credit purchase
Gevaert-Minne (coll.)
Oudenaarde
1958
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1958-O
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/2578/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015637 portraits AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 22C8 shadow Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
31B6213 looking sideways Iconclass
31D17 old woman Iconclass
42G221 grandparents (second degree family relationships) Iconclass
61BB2(VAN WIJNENDAELE, Roos) historical person (VAN WIJNENDAELE, Roos) - BB - woman Iconclass
School / Style Symbolism (artistic concept) AAT
Sint-Martens-Latem
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 364-365)
Gustave Van de Woestyne (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 27 maart - 27 juni 2010) / Robert Hoozee, Cathérine Verleysen, Piet Boyens, Marc Somers, Huguette Van de Woestyne-Vanagt. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2010 ; Brussel : Mercatorfonds, 2010 (nr. 71)
Nervia / Sint-Martens-Latem : Koppelteken = Nervia / Laethem-Saint-Martin : Traits d'union (tentoonstelling Elsene (Brussel), Museum van Elsene, 22.10.2015 - 17.01.2016) / Françoise Eeckman, Cathérine Verleysen, Michel De Reymaeker, Françoise Osteaux. - Bruxelles : Editions Racine, 2015 (p. 57)
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