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Portrait of Marie De Coster, the Artist’s Wife, 1888

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 223 x 132.5 cm
  • Inv. 1903-Q

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The Ghent artist Gustave Vanaise started out as a history painter, but simultaneously built up a career painting portraits of the middle class of Ghent and Brussels. This work displays several aspects of his portrait style. The subject is penetratingly characterised and stands in half-profile in a richly furnished middle-class interior. The loose brushwork in the woman’s clothing, the dog and the background all contrast with the realistic rendering of her face. The woman is Marie De Coster, the artist’s wife, who appeared regularly in Vanaise’s work until her death in 1891.

Artist

Gustave Vanaise RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ghent 1854 - Saint-Gilles (Brussels) 1902
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Title Portrait of Marie De Coster, the Artist’s Wife
Date 1888
Period 19th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signature and year bottom right: G. Vanaise / 1888.
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1903-Q
Acquisition credit purchase
Vanaise, Alphonse & Jules
Ghent
1903
Current whereabouts Work on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/346/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015637 portraits AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31D15 adult woman Iconclass
34B11 dog Iconclass
61BB2 historical persons - BB - woman Iconclass
61BB2(MARIE VANAISE-DE COSTER) historical person (MARIE VANAISE-DE COSTER) - BB - woman Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
Gustave Vanaise / Frédéric de Smet. - Gand : De Graeve, 1923 (p. 3 (ill.), 24, 38)
Gustaaf Vanaise / Frédéric de Smet. - Gent : Het Licht, 1923 (p. 23 (ill.), 27, 50)
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 144)
De vrienden van Scribe : De Europese smaak van een Gents mecenas (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 12 december 1998 - 14 maart 1999) / Monique Tahon-Vanroose, Robert Hoozee. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1998 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1998 (p. 214 (ill.))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 331 (ill.))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent : The Collection (exhibition opened on March 21th 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Ghent : Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2021
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