Portrait of Jan Toorop
1901
Medium
Pastel on paperboard
Dimensions
25 × 29 5/8 in. (63.5 × 75.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
Accession Number
2007.49.60
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the Modern and Contemporary Art department of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lemmen's *Portrait of Jan Toorop* (1901) captures a moment of intellectual immersion. Rendered in pastel on paperboard, this 25 × 29 5/8-inch drawing depicts the Dutch Symbolist and Art Nouveau pioneer Jan Toorop absorbed in reading. Lemmen, a Belgian known for his early adoption of Neo-Impressionism and Pointillism alongside Seurat and Signac, here shifts to the intimate, luminous medium of pastel, which allowed for soft blending and vibrant hues on the textured paperboard support. The work's artistic significance l...