Barbara Elisabeth van Houten (1862-1950)

The Interior of a Room with Pictures and a Screen by a Bed near a Window in the artist's House, The Hague

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Barbara Elisabeth van Houten (1862-1950)
The Interior of a Room with Pictures and a Screen by a Bed near a Window in the artist's House, The Hague
signed and inscribed 'huiskamer Riouwstr. 6 Br. van Houten'
pencil, watercolour, watermark De Haesbeek
325 x 495 mm.; a watercolour of a mother and child in a garden; two drawings of figures; a drawing of ship models; a sketchbook with five pages with watercolours of figures and fifty-three figure studies, mostly of relatives; and a smaller sketchbook with sixty-four studies of figures, landscapes, cattle and other subjects by or attributed to the same hand, S. Mesdag-van Houten (1834-109), J.J. van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1835-1925) and M. Bilders-van Bosse (1837-1900), partly pasted in (7)

Provenance

By descent in the Van Houten family
Boddaert Collection, Delft, 1962

Lot Essay

Barbara van Houten was taught by her aunt, Sientje Mesdag- van Houten (see the following lot) and her uncle, H.W. Mesdag, in The Haugue.
Barbara's father Samuel, who is among the figures portrayed in an album in this lot, was a lawyer and later member of Parliament in The Hague. He built a house in the Riouwstraat where the family moved in in the fall of 1886, and where Barbara looked after her father until his death in 1930. In the following year she moved to an appartment in the Panorama Mesdag building in The Hague.
(5) This drawing may be compared to the artist's etching (G. Knuttel, Barbara van Houten, Amsterdam, 1948, fig. 56)
See illustrations on pp. and

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