# Memory

- By: Jan Verkade (Zaandam, 1868–1946)
- Date: 1893
- Medium: panel, linen (material), oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 35 cm x width 26 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Otto van Noppen Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the BankGiro Lottery
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-5051--c4be6ee37edf99a212abbef06ee028d9)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/06a6780c679835e59343f3c51d9e4d3c.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The Zaandam painter Jan Verkade was a member of Les Nabis, a group of French painters around Paul Gauguin in Brittany. They had a marked preference for subjects taken from traditional village life, and worked in a colourful, stylized manner. In 1892 Verkade left for Fiesole in Italy, where he would live for three years. His memories of Brittany and appreciation of 15th-century Italian painting resulted in this charming ‘Breton Madonna.’