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Portrait of the Writer and Poet Willem Kloos
Willem Witsen (mentioned on object), 1894
Witsen was a peintre-photographe, or 19th-century painter who also took photographs. For artists, photographs functioned as preliminary studies or sketches. Witsen was inspired by the raw portrait photographs taken by his friend Joseph Jessurun de Mesquita, which he pinned to the wall in his studio. Witsen here captured the tormented poet Willem Kloos. He made an etching after the portrait in 1894.
- Artwork typephotograph
- Object numberRP-F-W-1750
- Dimensionsheight 242 mm x width 178 mm, height 302 mm x width 245 mm
- Physical characteristicspapier op karton