Dutch school; 19th century.

Dutch school; 19th century.
"The painter and the model".
Oil on canvas (x2).
They have craquelure and one of the pieces has visible restorations on the back.
Measurements: 33 x 24 cm (x2); 45 x 37 cm (frames, x2).
Pair of canvases in which the artist's studio is represented in both cases, dominated by the presence of a large unfinished painting, a young woman and the artist himself. Although in both cases the protagonists of the scene are the same, the images seem to correspond to a set that conveys the idea of love, reciprocated and rejected. In one of the cases the young lady, dressed in the classical manner, embraces the painter, while in the other scene the girl, anachronistically dressed, rejects the artist.
It is the clothes of the protagonists that inscribe both images in the current of historicism. The historical theme of the same, is set in a glorious past related to the history of the painter's country, it can be related, as commented, with the pictorial Historicism of the nineteenth century, the main current at the time, linked to the Academies of Fine Arts. The term "historicism" (Historismus) was coined by the German philosopher Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel. Over time, what historicism is and how it is practiced has taken on different and divergent meanings. Elements of historicism appear in the writings of French essayist Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) and Italian philosopher GB Vico (1668-1744), and were more fully developed with the dialectics of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), influential in 19th-century Europe.