Anna Leafing Through a Portfolio of Prints
Also titled Anna bladerend door een prentenmap
Laura Theresa Alma Tadema (Lady) (London, 1852–1909)
1874
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 11.3 cm x width 31.4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Anna, the painter’s seven-year-old stepdaughter, holds up a print with both hands. She has to peer around the sheet; that is how large it is, or conversely just how small Anna is. The Alma Tadema family filled their house with portraits of themselves. Possibly this small painting was among them. It affords the viewer an intimate glimpse into the child’s world while simultaneously demonstrating a fondness for graphic art.
