Girl in a White Kimono

• Girl in a White Kimono
• Girl in Kimono (Geesje Kwak?)

Girl in Kimono (Geesje Kwak?)

SK-A-3584

signature: ‘G.H. Breitner’

The model for this painting was called Geesje Kwak, then a sixteen-year-old housemaid from Amsterdam. She is dressed in a Japanese kimono, a popular subject for Breitner. He made thirteen paintings of girls in kimonos, inspired by Japanese prints, which he as well collected. However, for Europeans, wearing Asian clothing since long also had a sexual inference.

painter: George Hendrik Breitner (mentioned on object), Amsterdam

1894

olieverf op doek

height 59 cm x width 57 cm x depth 11 cm

Schets van het 'Meisje in witte kimono' in een brief van G.H. Breitner aan W. Witsen. In de collectie Witsenarchief, Koninklijke Bibliotheek te Den Haag.

Mr and Mrs Drucker-Fraser Bequest, Montreux

bequest 1944

Public domain

…; on loan from Jean Charles Joseph Drucker (1862-1944, Montreux) and Maria Lydia Drucker-Fraser (1886-1944, Montreux), with 70 other paintings, to the museum, 1919;{Note RMA.} by whom bequeathed, with 71 other paintings, to the museum, 1944

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