Paul Gauguin - Nirvana, Portrait of Jacob Meyer de Haan 1890

Nirvana, Portrait of Jacob Meyer de Haan 1890
Nirvana, Portrait of Jacob Meyer de Haan
1890 22x28cm oil/silk
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA

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Meijer Isaac de Haan (April 14, 1852, Amsterdam – October 24, 1895, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter. He was born into a successful Jewish family of biscuit manufacturers, close to the study of religion, music and art. He had already had some success in the Netherlands as a painter of Jewish genre works. In Amsterdam de Haan painted portraits and took on several pupils, including Joseph Jacob Isaacson, Louis Hartz and Baruch Lopes de Leao Laguna.
In the winter of 1888, accompanied by his pupil Joseph Jacob Isaacson, he went to Paris to continue his studies. There he met Pissarro, Theo van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin, back from Arles, whom De Haan accompanied to Brittany – first to Pont-Aven, and later to Le Pouldu, on the coast of Brittany.