Jan Toorop (1858-1928)

'De zaaier' / Two young women, swans, and an old man sowing

signed and dedicated in pencil 'aan Mej. Marius van J.H. Toorop.' (lower right); signed 'Toorop.' (in the print)

lithograph printed in lightbrown on paper, 21,5x33 cm
Executed in 1895.

Provenance:
-Collection Ms. Grada Hermina Marius (1854-1919), The Hague.
-Thence by descent to the collection of the present owner.

Grada Hermina Marius (Hengelo, Overijssel 1854 - The Hague 1919) was a painter, an art teacher, and above all an art critic, an artist's biographer and a publicist. In 1903 she wrote the standard work on Dutch painting in the nineteenth century: G.H. Marius, 'De Hollandsche schilderkunst in de negentiende eeuw', The Hague 1903.

The litho shows Toorop's Irish wife Annie Hall in a personification of desire and resignation and was one of his favourite prints.