Portrait of Lady Maria Francisca Louisa Dommer van Poldersveldt (Ubbergen 1848 - 1925 ’s-Hertogenbosch), Portrait is depicted seated. Jonkvrouwe Maria van Dommer van Poldersveldt is seated at the piano on a padded chair. With her right hand she lightly touches the keys of the open piano, her left arm rests on the chair back. She has put up her hair with small curls on her forehead and wears a high-necked dark-lace dress whose neckline and arms are unlined. The center of the frock skirt is embroidered from waist to hem. The keys of the piano, together with the lines of the embroidery, form a diagonal from the bottom left to the top right. Mrs. van Rijckevorsel is turned in her chair and turns to the left (to the right for the viewer) and stares out. The person portrayed has a direct relationship with the painter: Mrs. van Rijckevorsel was his aunt. Belonging to the counterpart of her husband Augustinus Gerardus Hubertus van Rijckevorsel., Fernand Khnopff (mentioned on object), s Hertogenbosch, 1888, oil paint (paint), panel, painting, h 47.5 cm × w 36.1 cm, Académie de Belgique, ‘Fernand Khnopff’, in: Notices Biogrphiques et Bibliographiques concernant les Membres, les Correspondats et les Associés, 1907 – 1909, Brussels, Académie Royale de Belgique 1909, p. 752., G. Deltour, in: La Belgique d’Aujourd’hui, Berlin-Charlottenburg s.d., EXHIBITED:

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