Woman in White is an early piece by the Dutch artist Jan Toorop. The painting is closely associated with the bourgeois salons of James Ensor and Fernand Khnopff of the same period, particularly because of the intimate, hushed character of the scene and the heavily applied paint layers in refined shades and areas of pure colour. A lady is sitting at the centre, daydreaming. It is probably Annie Hall, Toorop’s future wife. Behind her, a child is sitting on the ground with its doll lying on the chair in front. The white in the woman’s dress and in the window light up the sombre, almost suffocating, interior.
| Artist |
Jan Toorop
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| Title | Woman in White |
| Date | ca. 1885 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location | Brussels TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom left: J. Toorop |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1941-U |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
1941 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1941-U |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/1526/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
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figures (representations)
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300124520 interior views AAT |
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22C
light
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22C1 natural light Iconclass 22C4(WHITE) colours, pigments, and paints: white Iconclass 31A511 mirror Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31B12 sleeping in chair Iconclass 31D112 child Iconclass 31D11222 girl (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass 31D130 Maidenhood Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 41A2 interior of the house Iconclass 41A3321 closed window Iconclass 41A4 decorations (interior of the house) Iconclass 41A421 curtains Iconclass 41A431 rugs (textiles) Iconclass 41A721 chairs (furniture forms) Iconclass 41A7212 armchair, seat Iconclass 41A722 couch, sofa, settee Iconclass 41A731 case furniture Iconclass 41B21 open hearth, fire-place Iconclass 41B2141 chimney-piece, mantelpiece Iconclass 41B2142 chimney ornaments Iconclass 48C8551 puppet Iconclass 61BB2 historical persons - BB - woman Iconclass 61BB2(ANNIE HALL) historical person (ANNIE HALL) - BB - woman Iconclass |
| School / Style | Impressionist (style) AAT |
| Tentoonstelling van werken van Jan Toorop : met verzen van Miek Janssen (Den Haag, Kunsthandel Theo Neuhuys, 01.02 - 28.02.1914). - Den Haag : Kunsthandel Theo Neuhuys, 1914 |
| Jan Toorop : autobiografische herinneringen 1858-1886 ; zoals gedicteerd aan Anton Reichling SJ in 1927 / Jan Toorop, Paul Begheyn. - Zwolle : Waanders Uitgevers, 2009 (p. 74-75, nr. 17) |
| Jan Toorop : Een kennismaking / Victorine Hefting. - Amsterdam : Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1989 (p. 25) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 273 (ill. 98)) |
| D'Ensor à Magritte dans les collections du Musée de Gand (exposition Lodève, Musée de Lodève-Hôtel du Cardinal de Fleury, 19 novembre 2004 - 27 février 2005) / Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Helke Lauwaert, Bruno Fornari. - Lodève : Musée de Lodève, 2004 ; Milano : Mazzotta, 2004 (p. 38-40, cat. 3) |
| 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. 322-323 (ill.)) |
| Belgische schone : Ensor tot Magritte ; Hoogtepunten uit de verzameling van het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Laren, Singer Laren, 16.06 - 30.08.2015) / Johan De Smet, Jan Rudolph De Lorm. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2015 ; Laren : Singer Laren, 2015 ; Heule : Uitgeverij Snoeck, 2015 (cat.3 (ill. p. 10)) |
| Jan Toorop : Zang der tijden (tentoonstelling Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, 26.02 - 29.05.2016) / Gerard Van Wezel. - Den Haag : Gemeentemuseum (Den Haag), 2016 |
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