Girl in a Blue Dress, also called Portrait of a Girl Dressed in Blue (Dutch: Portret van een meisje in het blauw) or simply Portrait of a Girl (Dutch: Portret van een meisje), is an oil painting by Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. It was acquired by the museum in 1928 as a gift from the Vereniging Rembrandt. The identity of the girl and her family are unknown. Show Provenance[edit]In 1912 the wealthy merchant and art collector Mari Paul Voûte (1856–1928) became chairman of the Vereniging Rembrandt. At the end of World War I, when Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg was forced to abdicate and needed to downsize, his art collection came on the market and in 1923 the Vereniging Rembrandt formed a consortium with senior members to purchase artworks from this collection at their own risk in order to give them to the Amsterdam museum. The Girl in Blue was one of these artworks purchased by Voûte. Rather than giving it directly to the museum, however, he kept it until he died, whereupon he bequeathed it to the Vereniging Rembrandt for them to make over to the Rijksmuseum, which they did. The painting is very similar in composition to a pendant marriage portrait painted by Verspronck the year before, today in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Twenthe: We are going to learn what inspired him to paint this artwork, its symbolisms and where the piece can be found. The woman in the painting was Lydia Delectorskaya. She was a Russian émigré in France. Lydia had been working for Henri for the last twenty years. The painter had bought some fabric from Paris and then she used the fabric to make the robe shown in the painting. Henri Matisse Paintings Please enable JavaScript Henri Matisse PaintingsAn average person looking at the painting will first point out how exaggerated the dress looks. The painter may have intended for his audience to focus more on the dressing than the woman. Just like in modern fashion runway shows, you will notice models wearing dresses that a person would not wear in public. This painting may have been ahead of its time since this was the only time she wore the dress. The painting was made during the Expressionism Era. This is an era where artwork was distorted or exaggerated to convey an artist's emotion rather than the outward meaning of the painting. He wrote to a painter named Pierre Bonnard that his drawing conveyed the emotions he felt at the time. The dress has two distinct colours: white and blue. He admitted the colours depicted the relationship between light (white) and space (blue). Critics have pointed out how the painting is simplistic due to the skilful use of a few colours like red, yellow, blue, black and white. Each of the colours contrasts each other such that you can differentiate an object from another. If the painter chose to paint the background blue while the lady retains her blue dress, it would be overly confusing as to what she is wearing. Part of being a skilled painter is the ability to mix colours well. The painting is currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, USA. Henri had made some adjustments to his painting. In the first version, the woman simply leaned to her side. In other versions, the woman was painted with beads in her right hand and her face was more expressionless. The museum has all the versions of this painting. 100% Hand-painted Oil Paintings On Canvas
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