A variant of Roberton's famous 'Sleeping girl' (in Boijmans and on the cover of Anna Wagner's catalogue of the exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum). 'Sleeping girl' is executed in watercolour and gouache around 1894 and depicts a girl resting under rather bright sunlight. In the oil painting offered here, on the other hand, the light seems almost absent and only the child remains. Links can be made between Suze Robertson's art and that of Vincent van Gogh, both in execution and in subject matter. Robertson often depicted farmers and peasants at work in confident brushstrokes and sober colours.
