Kop van Alphons Grandmont en een man, van achteren gezien 1892 - 1913

Bramine Hubrecht made this drawing of Alphons Grandmont and another man using delicate pencil lines on paper. I imagine Hubrecht circling the figures with her pencil, feeling their forms, mapping them out as she observed. What does it mean to capture someone’s likeness in these quick strokes? It looks like she was trying to get to something essential about these men. There's a tenderness in the way she rendered their features, especially the face of Grandmont, which tilts as if in thought or mid-conversation. Hubrecht was working in a tradition of artists who used drawing as a means of understanding the world. Think of Degas, for example, and his sketches of dancers caught in fleeting moments. Artists are constantly in dialogue, aren't they? Hubrecht's drawing feels like a personal reflection, a quiet moment of observation turned into a lasting image.