FERDINAND DE BRAEKELEER II (Belgium, 1792 –1883). "Lady Profile". Oil on mahogany panel. Preserves
FERDINAND DE BRAEKELEER II (Belgium, 1792 -1883).
"Profile of a Lady.
Oil on mahogany panel.
It has a period frame with damage.
It presents repainting, faults and losses of the pictorial surface.
Measurements: 44 x 34,5 cm; 59 x 50 cm (frame).
The intensity of this female portrait is reflected in the volumetry of the monumental body, especially the neck, which stands out for its dimensions and the reflection it gives off with respect to the dark tonalities that make up the rest of the composition. The work bears a certain resemblance to the composition of the gesture found in the painting by Eugène Delacroix entitled The Orphan", which was executed in 1853.
Ferdinand Henri Jean de Braekeleer is part of a family of Flemish painters from Antwerp that has many members, which can sometimes lead to confusion in attributions. In fact, he is the eldest son of Ferdinand de Braekeleer (known as the Old Man), the brother of Henri de Braekeleer (1840-1888), who was the most prominent painter in the family. Following in the aesthetic footsteps of his family, the Younger, he painted genre scenes in the Flemish style of past centuries, such as the small canvas Family. He also painted 17th-century interiors, portraits and views of the city. He took part in the Antwerp Salon of 1849. In 1852 he founded a gallery in New York where he sold the works of the Belgian school, the Belgian Painting and Statuary Gallery. In New York he exhibited a painting entitled Le plunder1 at the National Academy of Design in 1853. Ill, he returned to Antwerp to die there.
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FERDINAND DE BRAEKELEER II (Belgium, 1792 -1883).
"Profile of a Lady.
Oil on mahogany panel.
It has a period frame with damage.
It presents repainting, faults and losses of the pictorial surface.
Measurements: 44 x 34,5 cm; 59 x 50 cm (frame).
The intensity of this female portrait is reflected in the volumetry of the monumental body, especially the neck, which stands out for its dimensions and the reflection it gives off with respect to the dark tonalities that make up the rest of the composition. The work bears a certain resemblance to the composition of the gesture found in the painting by Eugène Delacroix entitled The Orphan", which was executed in 1853.
Ferdinand Henri Jean de Braekeleer is part of a family of Flemish painters from Antwerp that has many members, which can sometimes lead to confusion in attributions. In fact, he is the eldest son of Ferdinand de Braekeleer (known as the Old Man), the brother of Henri de Braekeleer (1840-1888), who was the most prominent painter in the family. Following in the aesthetic footsteps of his family, the Younger, he painted genre scenes in the Flemish style of past centuries, such as the small canvas Family. He also painted 17th-century interiors, portraits and views of the city. He took part in the Antwerp Salon of 1849. In 1852 he founded a gallery in New York where he sold the works of the Belgian school, the Belgian Painting and Statuary Gallery. In New York he exhibited a painting entitled Le plunder1 at the National Academy of Design in 1853. Ill, he returned to Antwerp to die there.
