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Girl in a White Kimono
Also titled Meisje in witte kimono
George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam, 1857–1923)
1894
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 59 cm x width 57 cm x depth 11 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Mr and Mrs Drucker-Fraser Bequest, Montreux
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
The model for this painting was called Geesje Kwak, then a sixteen-year-old housemaid from Amsterdam. She is dressed in a Japanese kimono, a popular subject for Breitner. He made thirteen paintings of girls in kimonos, inspired by Japanese prints, which he as well collected. However, for Europeans, wearing Asian clothing since long also had a sexual inference.
