She appears to be cut off in the shallow background with a fixed, haunting gaze on her face. Khnopff became a popular society portrait painter in the 1880s, using elements that served him well as an avant-garde Symbolist painter: visual realism and a mood of isolation and reverie. #FernandKhnopff
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I also love the way Khnopff uses the texture of the canvas to suggest the texture of the tablecloth with washes of thin paint.
Born in 1858, Khnopff studied at the Académie Royal des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Académie Julian in Paris.
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Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921)
"With Verhaeren. An Angel", 1889,
Ink, black chalk, graphite heightened with white and scratchings out
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