# Portrait of Anna Boch

- By: Georges Lemmen (Belgian, 1865-1916)
- Date: 1894
- Medium: Conté crayon on off-white laid paper
- Classification: Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions: 34 × 29.8 cm (13 7/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
- Culture: Belgium
- Credit line: Suzanne and Marjorie Pochter Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/209692)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/a6e0ae34ae08ecfa6869610c2e7ae853.jpg
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Adapting Seurat’s signature drawing method, Lemmen combined Realist and decorative techniques in this portrait of Anna Boch, a grande dame of the Belgian art scene. Born into an upper-middle-class family dedicated to music and the visual arts, Boch played the piano, organ, and violin and was a painter associated with the Belgian Neo-Impressionists. In 1885 she joined Les XX (The Twenty), a group of artists dissatisfied with the strictures of the official Salon who had decided to exhibit together, and was its sole female member. A promoter of the work of Vincent van Gogh, she bought his Red Vineyard painting in 1890, thought to be the only sale the artist made during his lifetime.

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