Jan Toorop (1858-1928) - De pelgrim

a beautiful work by our well-known Jan Toorop. Dimensions without the frame are 24x24, set in a very simple frame entirely fitting this religious work.

Jan Toorop made the design/sketch (pencil drawing) of the above work belonging to a correspondence to Mrs. Jo Beukers in Nijmegen. 05-03-1914.

Two years later (1916) Leen and Toon Nolet had a similar work drawn on the stationery of his wine business in Nijmegen!

Johannes Theodorus (Jan) Toorop, also: Jean Theodor Toorop, (Poerworedjo (Dutch East Indies), 20 December 1858 – The Hague, 3 March 1928)[3] was one of the most important Dutch visual artists of the period 1880-1910.[4] Initially he painted in an impressionist style, but through pointillism he developed into a symbolist painter.

He was also active as a portraitist and designed ceramics, advertising posters and book bindings. Dutch Art Nouveau is often associated with his work. In the last twenty years of his life he was strongly inspired by Roman Catholicism.

He was the father of Charley Toorop, grandfather of the artist Edgar Fernhout and the filmmaker John Fernhout and great-grandfather of Rik Fernhout.