Théo van Rysselberghe, November 23, 1862–December 13, 1926, was a Belgian painter, printmaker, and designer associated with Neo-Impressionism. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and, from 1879, at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels under Jean-François Portaels.
In 1883 van Rysselberghe helped found Les XX, the Brussels avant-garde artists’ society, and became one of its most active members. After seeing Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte in Paris in 1886, he adopted Divisionist methods and helped introduce Neo-Impressionism to Belgium; he also worked closely with Octave Maus and maintained associations with Paul Signac, Émile Verhaeren, Henry van de Velde, and other figures in Belgian and French modernism.
His work is held by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Musée d’Orsay, Kröller-Müller Museum, National Gallery, Museo Nacional del Prado, and National Gallery of Art, among other public collections.
Self-Portrait, 1916
Black crayon and charcoal on paper, 22.3 × 16.7 in
Private Collection
The Sisters of the Painter Schlobach, 1884
Oil on canvas, 81.5 × 57.5 in
La Boverie, Liège, Belgium
Darío de Regoyos Playing the Guitar, 1885
Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 20.5 × 13.6 in
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Portrait of Marguerite Van Mons, 1886
Oil on canvas, 35.2 × 27.8 in
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Belgium
The El Khemis Gate in Meknes, Morocco, 1887
Oil on canvas, 15.9 × 24 in
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Portrait of Alice Sèthe, 1888
Oil on canvas, 76.8 × 38.6 in
Musée départemental Maurice Denis, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
‘Per-Kiridy’ at High Tide, 1889
Oil on canvas, 26.7 × 41.9 in
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
In July, Before Noon/The Orchard, 1890
Oil on canvas, 45.5 × 64.4 in
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
The Scheldt Upstream from Antwerp, Evening/Sailboats on the Scheldt, 1892
Oil on canvas, 26.3 × 35.6 in
Private Collection
Coastal Scene, c 1892
Oil on canvas, 20.1 × 24 in
National Gallery, London
Big Clouds/Heavy Clouds, Christiania Fjord, 1893
Oil on canvas, 19.5 × 23.5 in
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indiana
Portrait of Irma Sèthe, 1894
Oil on canvas, 77.6 × 45.1 in
Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva, Switzerland
Portrait of Auguste Descamps, the Painter’s Uncle, 1894
Oil on canvas, 25.2 × 20.9 in
Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva, Switzerland
Pointe Saint-Pierre at Saint-Tropez, 1896
Oil on canvas, 30.1 × 38.2 in
Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart, Luxembourg
Madame Théo van Rysselberghe and Her Daughter, 1899
Oil on canvas, 37.8 × 50.8 in
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Beach at Low Tide, Ambleteuse, Evening, 1900
Oil on canvas, 21.1 × 24.3 in
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Reading in the Park, 1902
Oil on canvas, 126 × 176.4 in
Hôtel Solvay, Brussels
The Lecture by Émile Verhaeren, 1903
Oil on canvas, 71.3 × 94.9 in
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Belgium
The Bay of St. Clair, 1923
Oil on canvas, 29 × 36 in
Private Collection
Intimacy, 1890
Conté crayon, 17.1 × 20 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Portrait of Laure Flé, 1913
Oil on paper board, 27 × 23.8 in
Private Collection
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