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Sophica Jurgens-Roidi  1919

Head-and-shoulders in profile to the right, head turned three-quarter face to the viewer, with her left hand raised to her breast, showing her wedding and engagement rings

Oil on board, [dimensions unknown]

Inscribed lower right: My wedding souvenir / London 1919 Aug. 17 / P. A. de László

Laib L9227 (492) / C14 (3A): Mrs Jurgens

NPG 1917-21 Album, f. 71

Sitters’ Book II, opp. f. 12: Sophica Jurgens 3.8.19

Private Collection

There exists a full-length portrait of the sitter [2030] painted in the same month as the present one. De László painted the two portraits and one of the sitter’s husband Henricus Jurgens [10403] on the occasion of the couple’s wedding which had taken place on 21 June 1919. Henri’s father Antonius Jurgens [10402] signed the sitters’ book in October the same year.

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [2030].

LITERATURE:         

•Grever, Tonko and Annemieke Heuft (Sandra de Laszlo, British ed.). De László in Holland: Dutch Masterpieces by Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937), Paul Holberton publishing, London, 2006, pp. 59, 60, 63, 66, 67, ill. pl. 29        

CWS 2006