Lot n° 91
Estimation :
5000 - 8000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 10 625EUR
Jan Frederick Pieter PORTIElLJE (1829-1908) - Lot 91
Jan Frederick Pieter PORTIElLJE (1829-1908)
Bust of a Greek woman
Oil on canvas
Signed "...tielje" and located "Anvers" top right.
H_69cm L_54cm ( view)
H_90cm W_74cm ( with frame)
Born in Amsterdam and died in Antwerp, Jan Portielje was a painter of genre scenes and portraits.
He studied at the Amsterdam and Antwerp Academies, and traveled to Paris and Germany. He painted portraits for the French, Belgian and Dutch aristocracy, with Frans Lebret and Eugène-Rémi Maes providing the background.
A representative of the Orientalist movement, the female figure was his favorite subject. The young woman in our painting is adorned with jewels and multicolored fabrics. Portielje seems to be capturing a moment in her daily life.
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Note:
Portielje's Greek Woman in Bust is part of the 19th-century Romantic movement marked by philhellenism, a fascination with Greece fostered by figures such as Lord Byron and Lamartine. Byron, committed to the Greek cause, helped create an idealized, sensual and melancholy image of Greece, while Lamartine disseminated this "Greek sentiment", transforming it into a poetic ideal. Portielje takes up this imaginary: her female figure is not a realistic portrait, but an aesthetic and nostalgic allegory of Greece, reflecting a European Romantic dream.
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