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Girl in a White Kimono

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Year
  
1894 (1894)

Subject
  
Geesje Kwak

Artist
  
George Hendrik Breitner

Created
  
1894

Material
  
Oil painting

Medium
  
Oil on canvas

Location
  
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Period
  
Japonism

Media
  
Oil paint

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Dimensions
  
59 cm × 57 cm (23 in × 22 in)

Similar
  
George Hendrik Breitner artwork, Oil paintings

Girl in a White Kimono (Dutch: Meisje in witte kimono) is an 1894 oil painting by George Hendrik Breitner. The subject of the painting is the sixteen-year-old Geesje Kwak, of whom Breitner made a series of photographs and paintings wearing red and white kimonos. The painting was inspired by the style of Japanese prints and is an example of Japonism. The painting is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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Girl in a White Kimono Wikipedia