Portrait of Cornelia, Clara and Johanna Veth

• Portrait of Cornelia, Clara and Johanna Veth
• Cornelia, Clara and Johanna Veth, the Three Sisters of the Artist

Cornelia, Clara and Johanna Veth, the Three Sisters of the Artist

SK-A-4862

Veth was twenty and still living at home when he portrayed his three sisters, who appear unhappy in the painting. At the time their mother was struggling with depression and would die just three years later. Although their father thought the portrait was a good likeness, he would have preferred their facial features to be slightly softer, likely referencing both the painting style and the sorrow that his daughters were experiencing.

painter: Jan Veth

1885

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• height 90.2 cm x width 109.6 cm
• depth 5.5 cm

D.A. Delprat Bequest, Amsterdam

bequest 1988-04

Public domain

…; bequeathed by the artist´s son-in-law, Daniel Apollonius Delprat (1890-1988), Amsterdam, to the museum, 1988

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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