Twee vrouwen en een man zittend op een bank voor een hek
Xavier Mellery
1855 - 1913
Medium
etching
Dimensions
80; 119
About this artwork
Legaat van jkvr. A.C.A.J. Clifford, Den Haag
About the Artist
Xavier Mellery · 1845–1921
Xavier Mellery (1845–1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter, draftsman, and illustrator who stands as a crucial precursor and founding figure of Belgian Symbolism, one of the most distinctive movements in late 19th-century European art. Born on August 9, 1845, in Laeken (a district of Brussels) as the son of a gardener at the Royal Palace, and dying on February 4, 1921, in Brussels, Mellery's caree...