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Landscape study

Statue in the Garden of Voorlinden, Home of the Loudon Family 1920

A view across a lawn to a path and some steps with planted urns and a statue on a plinth, a lake to the right and a single tree to the left, grass covered dunes and a blue cloudy sky beyond  

Oil on canvas, 30 x 39.5 cm (11 ⅞ x 15 ⅜ in.)

Private Collection

Voorlinden,^[1] in Wassenaar, near The Hague, was the home of the Loudon family. While visiting the Loudons in the spring of 1920, de László made this oil study of the garden with a sculpture which he used in the background of his portrait of John Hugo Loudon [6246]. The painting of the Voorlinden garden is the only known landscape that de László made in the Netherlands.

EXHIBITED:          

•Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam De László in Holland, Dutch Masterpieces by Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937), 3 March-5 June 2006, no. 40    

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, p. 70, ill. no. 40

•Hart-Davis, Duff, in collaboration with Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, De László: His Life and Art, Yale University Press, 2010, ill. 142

•Hart-Davis, Duff, László Fülöp élete és festészete [Philip de László's Life and Painting], Corvina, Budapest, 2019, ill. 176

CWS 2006