Sophie Jansen-Grothe artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale The Chinese doll
Sophie Jansen-Grothe
Zeist 1852-1926
1852-1926
The Chinese doll
watercolour and gouache on paper 25.0 x 39.4 cm, signed l.r. and painted between 1895-1902
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: Koninklijke Verzamelingen, coll. Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam (gewonnen op de in 1902 gehouden verloting van de Vereeniging tot bevordering van Beeldende Kunsten te Amsterdam); nalatenschap H.K.H. Prinses Juliana (1909-2004), Koningin der Nederlanden van 1948 tot 1980.
Sophie Grothe, daughter of a wealthy family in Zeist, was a student of H.W. Janssen. In 1895 she married this painter and moved to Amsterdam. Her oeuvre mainly consists of bright and colorful still lifes with exotic objects, interiors and portraits in watercolor. The still life shown here was drawn in 1902 by Queen Mother Emma or Queen Wilhelmina as a prize in the raffle of the Association for the Promotion of Visual Arts in Amsterdam.
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