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Dimensions: 100.5 x 61.5 cm.

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Notes: Exhibited:Tilburg-International Exhibition 1913, 18 June - 18 August 1913.Dresden, Sächsische Kunstverein, inv.no. 1534.Florence, Espozione degliArtisti, year unknown.Amsterdam, Association St.Lucas, year unknown.Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Tentoonstelling van Nederlandsche Beeldende Kunsten, 1923.Provenance:Christie's Amsterdam, sale 21 April 1994, Lot 314, sold for 16.000 Dutch guilders.Note: During her lifetime, the Amsterdam painter Thérèse Schwartze was a successful portrait painter, who at the same time had great technical skill and an intense business instinct. She knew exactly how to present the nineteenth-century Dutch beau monde and the Royals in a grand style - so unlike the Dutch -, which provided her with an income of millions of Dutch guilders. Internationally she established her reputation with numerous exhibitions and was given a multitude of commissions by clientele from all over Europe and the United States. This made her a successful artist and an example for the next generation of female painters, especially for the Amsterdam Joffers, an Association of which her cousin Lizzy Ansingh was a member. The seemingly effortless virtuosity of her elegant portraits caused quite sa lot of criticism among the orthodox and conservative part of Dutch society. Her active role in public and cultural life and the high prices her portraits yielded meant an eyesore to certain groups in society. Nevertheless, she managed to maintain her status of much sought-after portrait painter of the Dutch elite until her death in 1918.Literature: Pieter Scheen, "Lexicon of Dutch Artists", 1969, Vol.2, page 333.