Feesttent met puntdak voor een trap 1892 - 1913

This sketch of a party tent with a pointed roof and staircase, was made by Bramine Hubrecht. It's a light, airy drawing, the kind where you can almost feel the artist figuring things out on the page. I wonder what Hubrecht was thinking as she sketched this scene. Was she at a real party, quickly capturing the festive atmosphere? Or was she more interested in the shapes and forms, the geometry of the tent and the stairs? You can see how the marks are searching, finding their way across the paper. There’s a real delicacy to the lines, a kind of tentative confidence that I find really appealing. Hubrecht is part of a long line of artists who’ve used drawing to understand the world, to make sense of what they see. It’s like she's having a conversation with the scene, with each line a question, an answer, a new thought. And in a way, that’s what all artists do, isn’t it? We're all just trying to figure things out, one mark at a time.