Jan Anton GAREMIJN (Bruges 1712 - 1799)
Head of a woman with a fi chu
Sanguine, black stone and white highlights, on beige paper 18.5 x 15.5 cm
Note:
Garemijn seems to have worked exclusively in his native Bruges. His career was very productive, he was inspired by the Flemish masters of the
17th century, but also by later French painters such as
Watteau, Chardin or Boucher, whom he collected. The Bruges Museum, of which
Garemijn was director from 1765 onwards, has an important collection of his drawings.
We can compare our two heads with drawings also executed from life, formerly in the Masson collection. The Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris has a red chalk and black stone of this provenance, The Young Vielle Player (inv. Mas. 479).
