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Beautiful watercolor by Anna Elisabeth Kerling (The Hague 1862 - The Hague 1955).
Title: “Washerwomen in Moret, near Paris”
Signed lower right A. Kerling and verso Anna Kerling
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm (Frame: 45.5 x 46 cm)
In generally good condition, possibly some diffuse yellowing of the paper.
Anna Kerking learned to paint from Otto Eerelman and then attended the women's class at the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. Later she was taught by Suze Robertson. Kerling also taught drawing and painting. She made landscapes, portraits, cityscapes and (flower) still lifes.
She was a member of Arti et Amicitiae, the Hague painters' association ODIS (of which she was chairwoman for five years) and the Pulchri Studio.
She participated in association exhibitions, but also in the National Exhibition of Women's Work 1898, exhibitions of Living Masters and the exhibition The Woman 1813-1913. At the World Exhibition of 1900 in Paris, Kerling, Anna Abrahams, Marie Bilders-van Bosse, Aletta Ruijsch and Georgine Schwartze won an honourable mention. At the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, Kerling won the bronze medal.