| Brown Inventory ID: |
none on file |
| Artist: | Melchers, Gari |
| Nationality: | American |
| Artist Dates: | 1860-1932 |
| Title: | La Brabanconne |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions: | 73 in. h. by 31 in. w. |
| Hawkins Catalog Entry: | Yes, included in 1913 catalog |
| Hawkins Artist: | MELCHERS, GARI |
| Hawkins Dates: | Living Artist |
| Hawkins Note: | Born in Detroit, trained in Germany and Paris, worked in America, and lives in Holland and Germany |
| Hawkins Title: | No. 98. LA BRABANCONNE |
| Description: | A North Brabant girl standing full face full length in the centre. She wears a grey willow-green dress and red-sienna cape; her bag of clear cloisonne-blue hangs from her arm. Her white Dutch cap is crowned with pink flowers. Behind her head a Dutch conventional landscape picture; below, a warm violet-grey wall. At her feet a smoke-grey cat. Signed " Gari Melchers." A study in the contrasts and relief of one colour set against another, for example the smoke-grey cat uniting the floor colour with that of the background and contrasting with the willow-green of the dress. La Brabanconne belongs to the upper middle class of Brabant. This picture is reproduced in Modern Artists, p. 218 (by C. Brinton). |
| References: | Correspondence with RCH from 1905-1919 |
| Notes: | No file |
| Christies ID: | Yes |
| Catalog Text: | MELCHERS, GARI Living Artist Born in Detroit, trained in Germany and Paris, worked in America, and lives in Holland and Germany A North Brabant girl standing full face full length in the centre. She wears a grey willow-green dress and red-sienna cape; her bag of clear cloisonne-blue hangs from her arm. Her white Dutch cap is crowned with pink flowers. Behind her head a Dutch conventional landscape picture; below, a warm violet-grey wall. At her feet a smoke-grey cat. Signed " Gari Melchers." A study in the contrasts and relief of one colour set against another, for example the smoke-grey cat uniting the floor colour with that of the background and contrasting with the willow-green of the dress. La Brabanconne belongs to the upper middle class of Brabant. This picture is reproduced in Modern Artists, p. 218 (by C. Brinton). |
| Library: | Annmary Brown |
| Room: | Middle Gallery |
| Image: | ab98.jpg |