Artist
Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is an Impressionism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum.
She preferred paint to palace balls and kept a messy studio in The Hague, where she painted well into her seventies. One summer she locked herself in with August Allebé, a Dutch painter half her age, and turned him into a wide-eyed, loose-brushed portrait that feels like a backstage glimpse rather than a throne photo. If you like loose brushwork with a human pulse, tap “Portrait of August Allebé” and see why Dutch portraiture could be warm, not stiff.
Works by Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Collections represented
Museum
The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam…