Illustration Fascicle
The Avant-garde Artist, An Entrepreneur?
Jan Toorop and Les XX’s exhibition at the Haagsche Kunstkring
Valérie Alexine Lewis
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Introduction
Illustration I.I: A Session of the Painting Jury by Henri Gervex,1885. Oil on canvas. Shown at the Paris Salon in 1885 and acquired by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau. Donated to the French state later on.
Illustration I.II: Interior of the Grosvenor Gallery, West Gallery. Published in the Illustrated London
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Chapter One
Illustration 1.1: Paul Durand-Ruel. Archives Durand-Ruel et Cie.
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Illustration 1.4: The interior of Goupil & Cie’s gallery in The Hague, the Netherlands. RKD, Archive Goupil.
Illustration 1.3: Invitation of the firm Boussod, Valadon & Cie. to the retrospective exhibition of Camille Pissarro’s latest works, year unknown.
Chapter Two
Illustration 2.1: Portrait of the members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts by Edmond Lambrichs, undated. Oil on canvas. Acquired in 1896 from the artist’s widow. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, inv. 3352.
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Illustration 2.2: Art viewing in the room of Arti et Amicitiae by J. de Mare. An etching from the drawing by Ch. Rochussen,1851. Retrieved from Stolwijk (1995), p. 164.
Illustration 2.3: Catalogue of the Jacob Maris exhibition at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, December 1899. Retrieved from “Arti et Amicitiae and its library”, Van Gogh Museum Journal, p. 45, 1995.
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Illustration 2.4: Exhibition room of Pulchri Studio on the Prinsegracht 57. GAG, Archive Vereniging Pulchri Studio.
Illustration 2.6: Invitation for the opening of the exhibition
Aquarellen, Teekeningen, Beeldhouwwerken, Schetsen, enz. of the St. Lucas society, in the Panorama building,
Illustration 2.5: Catalogue of the 8th exhibition of Amsterdam, 1 June 1895. ASA, Archive Vereniging St. E.J. van Wisselingh & Co. at the Pulchri Studio, Lucas, inv. T590.050
The Hague, July-August 1910. GAG, Archive Vereniging Pulchri Studio, inv. N400.510
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Illustration 2.7: Reproduction of the photograph of Octave Maus Illustration 2.8: Reproduction of the in 1910. Retrieved from Maus, 1926, title page. photograph of Edmond Picard around 1900. Published in La Belgique
d'aujourd'hui, Gustave Deltour, 1908.
Illustration 2.9: Poster of the 2nd annual exhibition of Les XX, the first year Toorop participates, after he has been elected permanent member. Ollinger-Zinque et al.(1993), p. 26.
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Illustration 2.10: View of one of the exhibition rooms of Les XX’s first salon, in 1884, with works of i.a. Schlobach, Vogels and Chainaye, in the Royal Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels. Reproduction of an original photograph, AHKB, Fonds O. Maus, Inv. 4648.
Illustration 2.11: View of one of the exhibition rooms of Les XX’s first salon, in 1884, with works of i.a. Simons, J. Maris, Delvin, Injalbert and Lambeaux, in the Royal Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels. Reproduction of an original photograph, AHKB, Fonds O. Maus, inv. 4649.
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Illustration 2.12: Le Palais des Beaux-Arts a Bruxelles by Armand-Jean Heins,c. 1880. Etching. Ollinger-Zinque et al. (1993), p. 7.
Illustration 2.13: A corner in the Haagsche Kunstkring (Jan Toorop being the central figure) by Antoon Molkenboer, 1894. Blackchalk on paper.
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Chapter Three
Illustration 3.1: Catalogue of exhibition of the works of Jan Toorop (with poems by Mieke Janssen) at the art dealer Theo Neuhuys, The Hague 1914. RKD, Toorop tentoonstellingen.
Illustration 3.2 and 3.3: Cover and first page of the catalogue of the Toorop exhibition at the Reckers art gallery, Zuidblaak, March-April 1906. Notes by Toorop himself, primarly notes of the (indication or sold?) prices of the woks exhibited. RKD, Toorop tentoonstellingen.
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Illustration 3.4: De Drie Bruiden by Jan Toorop, 1893. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands. Chalk, pencil and charcoal on paper.
Illustration 3.5: O grave, where is thy Victory by Jan Toorop, 1892. Pencil and chalk on paper. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Illustration 3.6: Treur-Çakuntala by Toorop, 1893. Chalk on paper. Private collection.
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Illustration 3.8: Reprodution of a photograph of Jan Toorop printing his own etchings in his studio in Katwijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, 1902. Nationaal Archief.
Illustration 3.9: Reproduction of a photograph of Jan Toorop in his studio in Katwijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. RKD.
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Illustration 3.11: Portrait of Guillaume Vogels by Jan Toorop, 1884. Oil on canvas, Shown at the salon of Les XX in 1885, no. 4. Donated by Mr. Jean Renard in 1921. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, inv. 4329.
Illustration 3.10: De IJzergieter by Jan Toorop, 1920. Black and coloured chalk on paper. Whereabouts unknown since WWII (it was either destroyed during the Rotterdam bombing or stolen by the Nazis).
Illustration 3.12: Omstreken van Broek In Waterland by Jan Toorop,
1889. Oil on canvas. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA
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Illustration 3.13: Plan of the Panorama building Illustration 3.14: Postcard of the Panorama building designed by the architect Isaac Gosschalk and from the 1890s. Plantage Middenlaan, Amsterdam 50. built in 1879-1880. ASA, Archive Vereniging St.
Lucas, inv. T736.026.
Illustration 3.15 and 3.16: Catalogue of L’Art pour l’Art’s first exhibition, Antwerp, May-June 1892. KBB, Toorop, inv. F.S. XII, E 37/16.
Illustration 3.17 and 3.18: Catalogue of Les XX’s
exhibition at the HKK, designed by Jan Toorop, July-August 1892.GAG, Archive Vereniging Haagscge Kunstkring, inv. 198.
