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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

Public Domain

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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 WoestyneRKDVIAFWikidata
Ghent 1881 - Uccle 1947
painters (artists)AAT

TitleThe Grandmother or Portrait of Roos Van Wijnendaele
Date 1914
Period20th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom right: GVE VAN DE WOESTIJNE / 1914
CollectionpaintingsAAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number1958-O
Acquisition credit purchase
Gevaert-Minne (coll.)
Oudenaarde
1958
Current whereaboutsWork currently not on display
Permalinkhttps://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1958-O
IIIF Manifesthttps://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/2578/manifest.json