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Artist:     Henriette Ronner-Knip (1821-1909)
Title:     Playful dogs
Item ID   4577
Price:     3800.00 €
   

   
 

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Fine small genre scene with playful dogs was executed by one of the best European animal painters of 19th century Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821, Amsterdam – 1909, Ixelles). She was a Dutch-Belgian artist in the Romantic style who is best known for her animal paintings; especially cats and dogs. For comparison see other similar small works by this artist on our add.images.

She was born into a family of artists and she received her first lessons from her father, Josephus Augustus Knip, who also gave lessons to her aunt (his youngest sister), Henriëtte Geertruida Knip. His father, Nicolaas (1741-1808), was an artist as well. Some sources indicate that her mother was Pauline Rifer de Courcelles, a painter of birds, who was her father´s first wife but, at the time of her birth, they were apparently separated and he was living with his mistress, Cornelia van Leeuwen (1790-1848), who is also credited with being Henriëtte´s mother.

The family moved often as her father found work giving lessons. But, by 1823 her father was already blind in one eye. The following year, he and Pauline were finally divorced and he married Cornelia. After he became totally blind in 1832, the family continued to move about, staying for a short time in The Hague, then Beek and ´s-Hertogenbosch before settling in Berlicum in 1840. By this time, she was essentially in charge of the family´s finances and legal obligations, and had begun painting seriously by 1835. She was a participant in the Exhibition of Living Masters in 1838.

After Cornelia´s death, she moved to Amsterdam where she painted farms, animals and forests from nature; first in watercolor, then in oils. That same year, she became the first woman admitted as an "active member" to Arti et Amicitiae. In 1850, she married Feico Ronner (1819-1883) and they moved to Brussels. He was often ill and could not be regularly employed, so he became her manager. At this time, she narrowed her subject matter, focusing almost entirely on dogs and cats. After 1870, she painted her most famous works, featuring long-haired, often playful cats in bourgeois settings. She continued to paint dogs too; notably lapdogs belonging to Marie Henriette of Austria and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

In her later years, she had a house with a large garden, where she kept hunting dogs, cats and a parrot that she used as models. After observing them in her studio, she would make paper sculptures in the desired poses and set them together with props, such as furniture and fabrics. She occasionally collaborated with the genre artist, David Col.

In 1887, she was awarded the Order of Leopold and, in 1901, became a member of the Order of Orange-Nassau. [2] Her son Alfred and daughters Alice and Emma also became artists. She often exhibited with them.

Literature: " E. Benezit " Dictionary of painters, sculptors, decorators and etchers" (in French); Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler.."; " Dictionary of animal painters . Belgian and Dutch artists born between 1750 and 1880 ", Berko,1998; Henry Havard, Un peintre de chats. Madame Henriette Ronner, Boussod, 1892; Marion Harry Spielman, Henriëtte Ronner, the painter of Cat Life and Cat Character, Century-Crofts, 1893;

Inscription: signed with famous artist´s monogram H.R. lower right (for comparison see artist´s signature exemples in date bank artprice.com)

Technique: oil on wood. Luxuriousy original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w 6 1/8" x h 7 1/2" (15,5 x 18,8 cm), framed w 11 3/4" x h 13 1/4" ( 30 x 33,5 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.