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'Isabella'
Also titled Isabella
Simon Maris (The Hague, 1873–1935)
c. 1906
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 11 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- A. van Wezel Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
In creating this portrait, Maris first took photographs of the young girl as reference material. Thanks to those pictures and other documents in Maris’ archive, we know the girl was about twelve years old when she posed for him. Maris made several portraits of her, some bearing the title Isabella, including this painting. This was possibly not her real name, as models commonly used aliases.
