Artist: Georges Pierre Marie Van den Bos (Belgium, 1853 – 1911)
Medium: Antique heliogravure on heavy wove paper after the original.
Signature: Signed in the plate lower left.
Dimensions: Image Size 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Charity exemplified in the gift of a purse to a beggar woman with two children, from a lady on horseback. The horse himself seems to be taking cognizance of the act.
Georges Pierre Marie Van den Bos was active/lived in Flemish, Belgium, France. Georges Van den Bos is known for Landscape and aristocratic female figure painting. Georges van den Bos was born in Ghent and studied at the academies there and in Brussels before completing his training in Paris.Georges van den Bos was born in Ghent and studied at the academies there and in Brussels before completing his training in Paris. His subjects include landscapes and figural works and are included in several museum collections including the museum in Ghent. His best known works are depictions of elegant ladies near the coast and are painted in a style very close to that of his contemporaries Vittorio Matteo Corcos and Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer.