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The Complete Works of Philippe Smit
by Andreas Narzt and Florence Castellani

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Series
Series: Marijke
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Classification: Painting
Theme: figurative
Medium: Oil
Support: On ?
Year: 1920
PS 196 (P 132)
Jeune fille au divan (Girl on a Divan)
Alternate titles: Jeune Fille au Divan; La Femme à la rose; Marijke on Couch; Meisjesportret; Portrait of Marijke on Divan; Portret van een jong meisje op een divan
Before 1920
Oil on ?
65 5/8 x 40 in. (166.5 x 101.5 cm) approx.
Present whereabouts unknown
Inventories
Inv. Les Pleignes, P. Damidot, 1938, LNC archives: no. P 132: p. 12, escalier, Tableau par Philippe Smit./ La Femme à la rose. 4.000 [FRF].
Inv. Pitcairn, n.d. [c.1957], n.p., LNC archives: no. P 132 F: Rev. Theodore Pitcairn, Maryke on Couch, Smit, Oil, 65 1/5 x 40 [in.].
Provenance
Theodore Pitcairn (gift from the artist)
No trace since then
Exhibitions
1922–23 Gooische Kunstenaars
Vereeniging voor Vreemdelingenverkeer, Hotel Corvin, Hilversum, Netherlands, De tentoonstelling van werken door Gooische Kunstenaars, December 16, 1922–January 07, 1923, hors catalogue, as Meisjesportret (see Niehaus 1922b).
1923 Sparren
Atelier 'de Sparren', Laren, Netherlands, Philippe Smit, Laatste Werken, October 01–08, 1923, ?, as Portret van een jong meisje op een divan (see Niehaus 1923).
1948 Maurs
Galerie Pierre Maurs, Paris, Peinture et Pastels de Philippe Smit, February 04, 1948, no. 57, as Jeune Fille au Divan, 1917 (CP).
Literature & Primary Sources
De Gooi- en Eemlander 1922
H. v. C. "Schilderkunst II." De Gooi- en Eemlander (Hilversum), 30-12-1922, p. 2 ("… drie grote doeken …").
Philippe Smit 1922
Philippe Smit. ALS to René Massé. Recloses, n.d. [10 June 1922].
Niehaus 1922b
Niehaus, Kasper. "Werken door Gooische Kunstenaars." De Telegraaf (Amsterdam), 21-12-1922, p. 9, as Meisjesportret.
Niehaus 1923
Niehaus, Kasper. "Philippe Smit, 'De Sparren', Laren." De Telegraaf (Amsterdam), 04-10-1923, p. 6, as Portret van een jong meisje op een divan.
Niehaus 1924a
Niehaus, Kasper. "Schilderkunst, Philippe Smit." Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten Eerste Jaargang, n°11 (11/1924), p. 324.
Notes

"[…] Malgré ma Maladie de cette hiver/ j’ai beaucoup travailler. Mais la vie de/ Paris me fatigue beaucoup. Ma santé/ n’ai [est] pas encore ce que j’était auparavant/ enfin pourvu que je peut rendre mes rêves/ et de temps a autres aller vers cette divines forêts quelles beauté! […] ici il y a eu de grand changement. nous/ avee [avons] transformé la grand[e] pièce/ pour avoir plus de place pour les tableaus. […] J’ai un grand pastel [...] et puis un grand portrait de Maryke/ d’un composition étrange et rare. rappéllant/ quelques poêmes de Beaudelaire. [...]" [sic] (... Despite my illness this winter I have worked a lot. But life in Paris greatly exhausts me. My health is not as good as it was before. Well as long as I can achieve my dreams and go from time to time to this divine forest, what beauty. … Big changes were made here. We have transformed the large room to have more space for the paintings. … I have a large pastel: ... And then a large portrait of Maryke, a strange and rare composition recalling some poems of Baudelaire. ...) (Philippe Smit 1922)

See biographical note on Marijke Pitcairn.

Record last updated June 6, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Narzt, Andreas and Castellani, Florence. "Jeune fille au divan (Girl on a Divan), Before 1920 (PS 196)." In The Complete Works of Philippe Smit. www.philippesmit.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=196 (accessed on May 10, 2025).