File:George Hendrik Breitner - Meisje in witte kimono (Geesje Kwak).jpg

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Summary

George Hendrik Breitner: Girl in a White Kimono

Artist



Alternative names	Georg Hendrik Breitner; G. H. Breitner; Georges H. Breitner; George Breitner; Breitner; Hendrik Breitner
Description	Dutch painter, photographer, drawer, etcher, aquarellist and panorama painter
Date of birth/death	12 September 1857	5 June 1923
Location of birth/death	Rotterdam	Amsterdam
Work period	1873–1923
Work location	Rotterdam (1873–1875), The Hague (1876–1880), Rotterdam (1879), Scheveningen (1880–1881), Boxtel (1881), Rotterdam (1882), Drenthe (1883), Paris (1884), Loosduinen district (1885), Drenthe (1885), Amsterdam (1886–1903), Arnhem (1889), Berlin (1900), Aerdenhout (1903–1906), Amsterdam (1906–1923), Antwerp (1907), City of Brussels (1907), Ghent (1907), Mechelen (1907), Pittsburgh (April 1909-June 1909), New York City, Philadelphia, Munich (1922)
Authority file	: Q289441 VIAF: 71495339 ISNI: 000000008151357X ULAN: 500006861 LCCN: n50043496 WGA: b/breitner WorldCat

Title

Girl in a White Kimono

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

Het model dat voor Breitner poseerde heette Geesje Kwak. Ze was een Amsterdams dienstmeisje, op dit schilderij is ze zestien jaar. Ze is gekleed in een Japanse kimono, een geliefd thema van Breitner. Hij maakte dertien schilderijen van meisjes in kimono’s, geïnspireerd door Japanse prenten, die hij ook verzamelde. Maar het dragen van Aziatische kleding had voor Europeanen sinds lange tijd ook een seksuele lading.

Depicted people

Geesje Kwak

Date

1894

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 59 cm (23.2 in)

; width: 57 cm (22.4 in)

Collection

Rijksmuseum

	Native name	Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
	Location	Amsterdam
	Coordinates	52° 21′ 36″ N, 4° 53′ 07″ E
	Established	1800
	Website	rijksmuseum.nl
	Authority file	: Q190804 VIAF: 159624082 ISNI: 0000000121961335 ULAN: 500246547 LCCN: n79007489 NLA: 36126463 WorldCat

Accession number

SK-A-3584 (Rijksmuseum)

Place of creation

Amsterdam

Object history

1944: bequeathed to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, by Mr. and Mrs. Drucker-Fraser, Montreux

Exhibition history

Europeana 280

Inscriptions

Signature top left:

G.H. Breitner

References

Source/Photographer

www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Pic

Licensing

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	07:55, 4 November 2013	4,400 × 4,552 (4.46 MB)	Aiko	Versie Rijksmuseum
	07:54, 4 November 2013	4,400 × 4,552 (4.46 MB)	Aiko	Versie Rijksmuseum
	19:39, 4 June 2013	2,535 × 2,622 (6.2 MB)	Pimbrils	Small adjustment
	07:27, 8 November 2011	2,535 × 2,622 (5.69 MB)	Ophelia2	higher resolution
	18:58, 30 October 2005	1,557 × 1,600 (383 KB)	Dedden	Girl in a White Kimono (Geesje Kwak) - George Hendrik Breitner<br> 1894<br> Oil on canvas, 59 cm x 57 cm<br> Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam