While Charley Toorop picked up drawing and painting from her father, Jan Toorop (1858-1928), she soon developed her own style. Her portraits are noticeable for their hard contours and unusually large eyes, which give Toorop’s figures a striking appearance. So too this unidentified woman, portrayed in Amsterdam. Her fashionable cloche hat is typical of the 1920s.

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