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
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| 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
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300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
22C8
shadow
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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)
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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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