Studies of Puppies with a Dog

Henriette Ronner was a pupil of her father, Josephus Augustus Knip (see lots ......in this sale). In 1850 she married and settled in Brussels, where she died when she was eighty-seven. At a young age she assisted and worked with her aged father, slowly developing her very own style, depicting animals, especially dogs. After 1870 she concentrated on depicting cats.
Ronner did a number of similar animal studies, in bodycolour like the previous lot in this sale, or in watercolour, most similarly signed with monogram and dated, like that in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, H.J. Kraaij, Henriette Ronner-Knip 1821-1909, Een virtuoos dierschilderes, Schiedam, 1998, p. 19, fig. 10, and that in the Van Regteren Altena Collection, F. Kuyvenhoven, R. Peeters, op.cit., p. 90, fig. 34.