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Portrait of Nurse Nelly
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Petronella Alida Goudkade, ‘Nurse Nelly’, married the writer Ary Prins in 1894. Toorop may have made this portrait of her shortly before her wedding. Nelly worked as a parish nurse in a Hague hospital. Behind her is a vague fanciful pattern of birds. This type of portrait is one of the first of a long series that Toorop would continue to make in the following years.
Title: Portrait of Nurse Nelly
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Petronella Alida Goudkade, ‘Nurse Nelly’, married the writer Ary Prins in 1894.
Toorop may have made this portrait of her shortly before her wedding.
Nelly worked as a parish nurse in a Hague hospital.
Behind her is a vague fanciful pattern of birds.
This type of portrait is one of the first of a long series that Toorop would continue to make in the following years.
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