Lucie van Dam van Isselt

After 1905 Toorop returned to a brushstroke technique and even to an impressionist style.
He used this mainly for portraits, which were much more broadly
executed than those of twenty years before.
He painted more portraits of men than of woman and seldom showed a woman full face.
This portrait has a highly feminine expression.
The sitter was a painter herself and lived for many years in the little town of Veere in Zeeland.
She was the wife of the art-critic Albert Plasschaert, who published a monograph on Toorop in 1925.
The artist made an other, but smaller portrait of Lucie in the same year (Next image), now in the collection of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague.