Vrouw met wit kapje en kraag

About this artwork

verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2165

Art Historical Context

This delicate portrait, titled *Vrouw met wit kapje en kraag* (Woman with White Cap and Collar), was created by the Dutch artist Gerardus Johannes Bos between 183 and 1898. Executed on paper measuring just 178 by 136 millimeters, the small scale suggests an intimate study or preparatory drawing rather than a formal commission. The work likely depicts a woman in traditional Dutch attire, with the distinctive white cap and collar serving as focal points that highlight everyday costume details from the nineteenth century. Bos, active during a period when Dutch art often emphasized realism and do...

About the Artist

Gerardus Johannes Bos · 1825–1898

Gerardus Johannes Bos (1825–1898) was a Dutch painter, engraver, and lithographer who specialized in depicting animals, particularly domestic livestock, in landscape and stable interior settings. Born in Leiden on April 9, 1825, Bos developed a distinctive artistic focus on rural life and animal subjects that earned him recognition among nineteenth-century Dutch genre painters. Though he received ...