Duke Adolf refuses the offer of the Crown of Denmark
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Artist |
creator QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q363823
creator QS:P170,Q979541 | |
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Title |
Danish: Hertug Adolf afslår tilbuddet om den danske trone. Kopi efter C. W. Eckersberg Adolf, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Declines the Offer to Accede to the Danish Throne label QS:Len,"Adolf, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Declines the Offer to Accede to the Danish Throne"
label QS:Lda,"Hertug Adolf, som afslår tilbudet om den danske krone" |
Object type |
painting |
Genre |
history painting |
Description |
A copy of one of the four large paintings Eckersberg made for the castle Christiansborg. For many years it was beleived to be one of Eckersberg's studies for the paintings, but an analysis in 2013 concluded that it was not a work by Eckersberg, but instead a copy by Rørbye, as mentioned in the estate sale of Eckersberg in 1854. The study it was confused with (Hannover's list no. 240), was auctioned by Bruun Rasmussen in auction 658, February 23, 1999, no. 265, and has not been heard of since. The experts at Statens Museum for Kunst assumed that Rørbye saw the large painting in 1825-26 in the painting room at Charlottenborg, where Eckersberg was a professor at the Academy and Rørbye was a student. |
Depicted people |
Adolphus VIII of Holstein |
Date |
from 1825 until 1826 date QS:P,+1825-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1825-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1826-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 47.2 cm (18.5 in) ; width: 36.5 cm (14.3 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+47.2U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+36.5U174728 |
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q671384 |
Accession number |
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Object history |
- Owned by C.W. Eckersberg.
- Bought at his estate auction in 1854, no. 196 (as Copy by Rørbye) by the merchant Bechgaard.
- The widow mrs. Bechgaard, her auction February 26, 1895, no. 47.
- Sotheby's-Parke Bennet, New York, March 25, 1987, no. 124.
- Bruun Rasmussen auction 522, April 18, 1989, no. 519 (as a work by Eckersberg), bought by professor Flemming Hansen.
- Bruun Rasmussen auction 750, December 5, 2005, no. 1007 (as a work by Eckersberg).
- Auctioned at Bruun Rasmussen, Bredgade Copenhagen on December 6, 2006 but not sold. Lot 763/2094 (as a work by Eckersberg). bruun-rasmussen.dk
- Sold at Bruun Rasmussen Auctions on November 29, 2010 for DKK 80,000 (EUR 10,800). Lot 815/84 (as a work by Eckersberg). Bought at the auction by a Danish collector, who donated the work to Statens Museum for Kunst in 2012.
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Inscriptions |
unsigned |
References |
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Source/Photographer |
www.bruun-rasmussen.dk |
Permission (Reusing this file) |
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