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| Valdemar Hjartvar Købke (1813–1893), the Artist's Brother |
Artist:Christen Købke (Danish, Copenhagen 1810–1848 Copenhagen)
Date:ca. 1838
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:21 1/8 x 18 1/4 in. (53.7 x 46.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1990
Accession Number:1990.233
This portrait of Købke’s younger brother in his seaman’s uniform was painted soon before the artist left Copenhagen for a sojourn in Italy. It is an incisive likeness, remarkable for its psychological intensity. Købke, who is widely regarded as the greatest Danish painter to emerge from the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts, brought a distinctive clarity and luminosity to the naturalist aesthetic of his teacher, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.
Provenance
Mrs. L. Gjern; Mrs. L. Nutzhorn (by 1915–at least 1927); Anton Boyer, Copenhagen (by 1953–d. 1957); his daughter (until 1990; sale, Kunsthallen Kunstauktioner, Copenhagen, April 25–26, 1990, no. 122, for DKK 330,000 to Katz); [Daniel Katz and Timothy Bathurst, London, 1990; sold to MMA]
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