Een dame en anderen - four portraits by Hendrik Pothoven

 

Interieur met een dame zittend aan een tafel, ND.

This portrait - lively and charmingly naïve - is what first called my attention to the work of Pothoven. Apparently undated, it's stylistically quite different from the following three pieces. I'd venture to assume it was painted earlier in his career than those, but the unspecificity of his subject's toilette and her strange non-coiffure make it difficult to hazard any sort of a guess.

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 Jan de Groot en zijn familie, 1777.

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Familiegroep in het interieur, 1774.

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Petrus Bliek, remonstrants predikant te Amsterdam, met zijn vrouw Cornelia Drost, 1771.

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Hendrik Pothoven (25 December 1725, Amsterdam – 29 January 1807, The Hague), artist during the period of the Dutch Republic. According to the The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (RKD/Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), he was a pupil of Frans de Bakker and Philip van Dijk, and was a follower of Frans van Mieris and Adriaen van de Velde. Best known for his portraits, landscapes, and engravings, he worked in his native Amsterdam until 1764. He then moved to The Hague, where he would later die at the age of eighty-one.

King in a boat - Louis-Philippe and his family, afloat on the Seine

 

Le Retour en barque du château de Saint-Cloud au château de Neuilly du roi Louis-Philippe entouré de sa famille, figurés au clair de lune sur la Seine, pendant l’été 1840, by Joachim Issarti, circa 1840-44.

The Château de Neuilly was the favorite of the residences of le Roi Citoyen and his family which lay within the environs of Paris. Both this and the better known Château de Saint-Cloud, the declared point of departure in the above painting, are long since lost. The former was burned and pillaged on the fall of Louis-Philippe's "July Monarchy"; all that survives is a wing, now occupied by a convent. The latter burned in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, and was finally demolished in 1891.

Louis-Philippe et la famille royale en barque à Neuilly, by Adolphe-Eugène-Gabriel Roehn, circa 1845.

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Roehn's preparatory sketch for the above painting.

Exiting the "Mauve Decade" - evening gown by Maison Clergeat

Silk charmeuse, chiffon, organdy, wool embroidery, sequins, lace, taffeta lining.

This two piece evening gown was made by the Maison Clergeat between 1898 and 1900. Stylistically, it has moved past most of the exaggerations of proportion of the 1890s and, rather, evokes the characteristic S-shape silhouette of the following half-decade. Sadly, I've been unable to find anything at all about Maison Clergeat, the creator of this lovely garment.

American men II