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| The Hall of Antiquities at Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen |
Artist:Adam August Müller (Danish, Copenhagen 1811–1842 Copenhagen)
Date:1830
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:12 3/8 × 9 3/4 in. (31.5 × 25 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, Friends of European Paintings Gifts, 2018
A young watchman’s casual lack of self-awareness contrasts with the stiff formality of plaster casts made from Greek and Roman sculptures. These galleries in Charlottenborg Palace, seat of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, provided students like Müller with models from antiquity as the basis for learning to draw. On the tablet in the foreground is a faint rendering of the statue of the standing Isis, opposite, a sign of the artist’s presence.
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