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Delftshce Slaolie

Jan Toorop and Lankhout Immig.

Delftshce Slaolie

1893

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Delftshce Slaolie

1893

Physical Qualities Color crayon and tusche lithograph, Framed: 43 1/4 × 30 7/8 in. (110 × 78 cm.)
Credit Line Collection of LeRoy E. Hoffberger and Paula Gately Tillman Hoffberger
Object Number 2017.31
Among the most memorable advertising campaigns featuring Art Nouveau graphics was the poster Jan Toorop designed in 1894 for the Netherlands Oil Factory in Delft. Above the seated woman one sees a heraldic shield of the company alongside a patterned arrangement of Indonesian peanuts (from which the oil was made). One curator has written that the “willowy, ultra-refined Toorop ladies. . .perform the dressing of the salad as if it were a sacred ritual.” The parallel, undulating lines of the women’s hair that weave around the light green and purple composition seem to vibrate in the air. Toorop’s design was so influential that the Art Nouveau movement in the Netherlands is often referred to as the “salad oil style.”
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2017; LeRoy Hoffberger, Baltimore; purchased from Bernice Jackson, March 1987
Sacred Spring: Vienna Secession Posters from the Collection of LeRoy E. Hoffberger and Paula Gately Tillman

Artist

Jan Toorop

1857–1927

Dutch, born Indonesia, 1858-1928
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Printer

Lankhout Immig.

2000–2000

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