
- Artist
- Walter Richard Sickert 1860–1942
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 511 × 406 mm
frame: 722 × 630 × 104 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1983
- Reference
- T03548
Display caption
Sickert challenged traditional idealised treatments of the nude. He placed his figures in real environments. This is one of several paintings showing a naked woman in poor surroundings: on a cheap iron bed in a dimly-lit room. The painting does not reveal the woman’s identity, but the title, ‘The Dutch Girl’, may refer to the nickname of a sex-worker in a realist novel by the nineteenth-century French author, Honoré de Balzac. The brush marks form a surface so rough that, if you look at it closely, the image seems to fragment.
Gallery label, October 2020
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