id: 153750 accession number: 1987.51 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.51 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:01.440000 Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal, 1833. Christen Købke (Danish, 1810–1848). Oil on fabric; framed: 45 x 37 x 7.5 cm (17 11/16 x 14 9/16 x 2 15/16 in.); unframed: 33.5 x 25.6 cm (13 3/16 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1987.51 title: Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1833 creation date earliest: 1833 creation date latest: 1833 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Denmark, 19th century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Christen Købke (Danish, 1810–1848) - artist Christen Købke was only twelve years old when he entered the Copenhagen Academy in 1822. He was first taught by landscape and portrait painter Christian August Lorentzen (1746-1828) and subsequently by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853). The latter rigorously reformed art education at the academy, stressing study after nature and live models. Even after Købke left the academy in 1832, he continued working with Eckersberg, becoming his friend. Eckersberg's involvement with the study of perspective and light strongly influenced Købke's work. Until 1833 Købke lived in the Copenhagen Citadel, where his father was a baker. Inspired by his surroundings, Købke produced his first major paintings, such as The North Gate of the Citadel (1834, Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen). The family moved not too far from the capital to the countryside near Blegdammen. There Købke created some of his famous lake views, generally painted in the studio after many outdoors drawing and sketching sessions. Frederiksborg Castle was another important subject, and he drew and painted it many times, showing his great ability in rendering varied light and atmospheric conditions. In 1838 Købke traveled via Dresden and Munich to Italy, where he visited Venice, Rome, and finally Naples. He studied Roman antiquities and wall paintings and used his sketches upon his return to Denmark in 1840. With his View of Marina Piccola on Capri (private collection), he tried to become a member of the Royal Academy in 1846, but the work was not accepted. He had unwillingly moved back to Copenhagen in 1845 and worked as a decorative painter in order to improve his difficult financial situation. As such, he was involved with the painted decorations of the Bertel Thorvaldsen museum. Thorvaldsen had collected the work of many of his contemporaries; however, he had never bought a work by Købke. This illustrates the lack of recognition of Købke's work during his lifetime. Soon after his death from pneumonia at the age of thirty-seven, Købke was almost forgotten. At the end of the nineteenth century, this situation gradually changed, and today Købke is regarded as one of the most important figures in Danish nineteenth-century painting. --- measurements: Framed: 45 x 37 x 7.5 cm (17 11/16 x 14 9/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 33.5 x 25.6 cm (13 3/16 x 10 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed and dated in black paint bottom right corner: C Köbke 1833 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1987 opening date: 1988-02-24T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988). title: Christen Købke, 1810-1848 opening date: 1996-02-10T00:00:00 Christen Købke, 1810-1848. Statens Museum for Kunst (organizer) (February 10-May 27, 1996). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst. The Golden Age of Danish Painting (1993-94), 9, 151 (no. 62), 153 (repr. in reverse). (The Copenhagen venue was added at a later date.)', 'opening_date': '1993-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst. Christen Købke 1810-1848 (1996), 356 (no. 59a, repr.).', 'opening_date': '1996-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Family of the sitter, by descent to his great-grandson Nils Ehnbom, Köpingebro, Sweden. London sale, Sotheby's, 26 November 1986 (lot 4, repr.), Portrait of Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal, £50,600 to Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd., London. Purchased by the CMA through Eugene V. Thaw, New York, in 1987. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. “Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Portrait of Crescentia, Countess Zichy (later Countess Széchenyi) with a Parrot and a Camellia in a Mountainous Landscape.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 1 (1994): 3-17. page number: Mentioned: p. 16 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161437 Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 382-383, Vol. II, no. 133 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.51/1987.51_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.51/1987.51_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.51/1987.51_full.tif