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\n\tAt TEFAF Maastricht, the Van Gogh Museum acquired Virginie Demont-Breton\u2019s L\u2019homme est en mer<\/em>, a painting from 1887\u201388 that now counts as only the third painting by a woman in the institution\u2019s collection, according to Artnet News<\/em>. <\/p>\n \n\tAs reported by senior editor Kate Brown, the painting of a woman looking longingly while holding an infant\u2014presumably pining for the titular man at sea\u2014was purchased by the Amsterdam museum with public funds dedicated to acquisitions for a price between \u20ac500,000 and \u20ac1 million ($543,000 and $1.1 million). The sale on TEFAF\u2019s opening day was brokered by Gallery 19C from Dallas-Forth Worth, where the work had been in a private collection for 20 years.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cVan Gogh had seen Demont-Breton\u2019s painting, which was made in between 1887 and 1889, reproduced in black and white in a magazine about French salon paintings and he was so inspired by it that he copied it,\u201d according to Artnet<\/em>. \u201cIt is one of the only paintings by a woman artist that he is known to have emulated.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAbout the work, Lisa Smit, the Van Gogh Museum\u2019s curator of paintings, said, \u201cVan Gogh was a big fan of the work of Demont-Breton\u2019s father,\u00a0Jules Breton. He would have seen a lot of sentiment in this work. It is heartfelt, it is truthful. You can immediately feel for the figure. It is a depiction of motherhood that is not idyllic.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tDemont-Breton\u2019s L\u2019homme est en mer <\/em>previously sold at Christie\u2019s in 2000 for a price of $99,500. In an essay accompanying the lot at the time, Christie\u2019s wrote, \u201cWhile her subject matter ranged from religious compositions, genre scenes and landscapes, she had a particular penchant for her heartfelt depictions of family life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/van-gogh-museum-acquisition-virginie-demont-breton-1234777402\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2232672579.jpg?w=1024″] At TEFAF Maastricht, the Van Gogh Museum acquired Virginie Demont-Breton\u2019s L\u2019homme est en mer, a painting from 1887\u201388 that now counts as only the third painting by a woman in the institution\u2019s collection, according to Artnet News. As reported by senior editor Kate Brown, the painting of a woman looking longingly while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1825970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1825970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}