{"id":11910,"date":"2012-08-22T02:38:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T01:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11910"},"modified":"2012-08-22T13:15:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T12:15:31","slug":"more-from-the-decadent-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/08\/22\/more-from-the-decadent-dutch\/","title":{"rendered":"More from the Decadent Dutch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Illustration by Otto Verhagen from Yolanda \u2013 Het Boek van Bloei (1931) by Nan Copijn.<\/em><\/p>\n

Would-be Decadents is perhaps a better label, the Decadent ship having set sail across an absinthe-tinted sea by the time these artists were putting pen to paper. Their drawings are another set of scarce images forwarded by Sander Bink who maintains the Rond1900<\/a> site. (See this earlier post<\/a> for further examples.) Sandor also sent artwork details which I’ve quoted below. In addition to yet more overt Beardsley influence (the Verhagen above and Ren\u00e9 Gockinga’s woman with a candle) there’s also a striking Harry Clarke influence in the second Gockinga drawing which is closer to Clarke’s idiosyncratic style than (for example) these later drawings<\/a> by Cardwell Higgins. Seeing one artist borrow the mannerisms of another is a common thing; far less common is finding an artist who adopts different styles the way Gockinga does. Incidentally, the Couperin novel mentioned below was published with a typically elegant cover design<\/a> by Symbolist artist Jan Toorop.<\/p>\n

(Thanks again Sander!)<\/p>\n

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Otto Verhagen. Illustration (not used as such) for Couperus’ Psyche<\/em> (1898). Engraving, ca 1913. Collection Sander Bink. This is a personage from the story but to me it looks somewhat like an Oscar Wilde portrait!
\nIllustration for the very popular fairy tale for adults Psyche<\/em> by Louis Couperus<\/a> (1863\u20131923). You might have heard of Couperus: Oscar Wilde appreciated his decadent, somewhat homosexual, novel Noodlot<\/em> (1890), translated as Footsteps of fate<\/em>. Some letters were exchanged. Couperus’ wife Elisabeth translated Dorian Gray<\/em> in 1893. (First Dutch translation.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Sortie<\/em> (1904) by Carel de Ner\u00e9e tot Babberich. Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem (from De Neree catalogue, 1986). Verhagen’s Dorian Gray<\/a> seems to be influenced by this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Woman with candle<\/em> by Ren\u00e9 Gockinga, ca 1916. Current location unknown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Indonesian lady dancing<\/em> [as I call it\u2014SB] by Ren\u00e9 Gockinga. From the Indonesian satirical-political periodical De Zweep<\/em> [The Whip<\/em>] 1922.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Further echoes of Aubrey<\/a>
\n\u2022 A Wilde Night<\/a>
\n\u2022 Echoes of Aubrey<\/a>
\n\u2022 After Beardsley by Chris James<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #1: Aubrey Beardsley<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Karel de Ner\u00e9e tot Babberich, 1880\u20131909<\/a>
\n\u2022 Beardsley\u2019s Rape of the Lock<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Savoy magazine<\/a>
\n\u2022 Beardsley at the V&A<\/a>
\n\u2022 Merely fanciful or grotesque<\/a>
\n\u2022 Aubrey Beardsley\u2019s musical afterlife<\/a>
\n\u2022 Aubrey by John Selwyn Gilbert<\/a>
\n\u2022 \u201cWeirdsley Daubery\u201d: Beardsley and Punch<\/a>
\n\u2022 Alla Nazimova\u2019s Salom\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illustration by Otto Verhagen from Yolanda \u2013 Het Boek van Bloei (1931) by Nan Copijn. Would-be Decadents is perhaps a better label, the Decadent ship having set sail across an absinthe-tinted sea by the time these artists were putting pen to paper. Their drawings are another set of scarce images forwarded by Sander Bink who … Continue reading “More from the Decadent Dutch”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,42,48],"tags":[2116,7325,117,99,1227,3962,3990,3989,116,3960,3964,123,3961,493],"class_list":["post-11910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-cardwell-higgins","tag-carel-de-neree","tag-dorian-gray","tag-harry-clarke","tag-jan-toorop","tag-karel-de-neree","tag-louis-couperus","tag-nan-copijn","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-otto-verhagen","tag-rene-gockinga","tag-salome","tag-sander-bink","tag-the-savoy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-366","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}