Koningin Juliana van Oranje-Nassau artwork • painting • previously for sale A forest path with a girl
Koningin Juliana van Oranje-Nassau
Den Haag 1909-2004 Soestdijk
1909-2004
A forest path with a girl
oil on board 18.7 x 13.9 cm, signed l.r. with initial
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: ten geschenke gegeven aan J.B. Krebs, voormalig kamerdienaar en opperportier van koningin Wilhelmina.
Queen Juliana was not actively involved in the visual arts, but she was interested in it, as well as in drama and literature. As a young girl, from the age of ten, she was taught painting and art history by Tjieke Roelofs-Bleckmann, the wife of painter Albert Roelofs. At the time, he was teaching Juliana's mother, Queen Wilhelmina. Painting was an incidental affair for Juliana; she accompanied her mother on various trips and they sometimes painted together. But unlike for Wilhelmina, painting was not a serious activity for Juliana that formed a relaxing counterbalance to the heavy government task that rested on her shoulders.
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