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1862-1926
MARIE-ANNE WEBER AU VIOLON ALTO

MARIE-ANNE WEBER AU VIOLON ALTO

measurements
39 1/2 by 29 in.

alternate measurements
100 by 74 cm

Signed with the monogram and dated 1903 (lower left)

Oil on canvas

The present work is a portrait of the singer and musician Mme. Marie-Anne Delacre (1884-1953) whose husband was the founder of the Théâtre du Marais in Paris.

PROVENANCE

Dr. A. Weber, Luxembourg
Bozidar
Meirlaan, Brussels
Richard Green, London (sold: Sotheby's, London, November 29, 1989, Lot 133a)
Private Collection

EXHIBITED

Brussells, La Libre esthétique, 1904, no. 186
Weimar, Herzogliches Museum, Néo-impressionists, 1905
London, Richard Green Gallery, European Paintings, 1988, no. 21

LITERATURE

Gustave Van Zype, "Théo van Rysselberghe", Annuaire de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, Brussels, 1932
O. Scheps, "The Collection of O. Ghez, Geneva", Ages Arti Grafiche, Turin, June 1996
Ronald Feltkamp, Théo Van Rysselberghe: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2003, no. 1903-005, illustrated p. 343

NOTE

In this portrait of Marie-Anne Weber playing the violin, van Rysselberghe displays his talent as one of the principal talents working in the Post-Impressionist circle. The chromatic discoveries led by Seurat and Signac set the stage for divisionist painting that was in full stride by the mid-1890s. Together with Georges Lemmen, van Rysselberghe was one of the very few painters to put the pointilliste technique at the service of portraiture. Van Rysselberghe was also one of the few followers of Seurat who fully mastered the application of paint in small dabs of complimentary and contrasting color. The present work is a lyrical example of his technical command and artistic expression.

Fig. 1 Théo van Rysselberghe, Autoportrait au panama, oil on canvas, 1908, Private collection