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Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal
Christen Købke1833
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The sitter (1812-1844) was born on the island of Saint Thomas, at that time a colony in the Danish West Indies. He was sent to Copenhagen to study medicine and later set up practice at Satrup in Schleswig, then part of Denmark. For health reasons, he returned with his wife to the Virgin Islands, where they both died in 1844.
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- Title: Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal
- Creator: Christen Købke (Danish, 1810-1848)
- Date Created: 1833
- Physical Dimensions: 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.)
- 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.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.51
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Inscriptions: Signed and dated in black paint bottom right corner: C Köbke 1833
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Denmark, 19th century
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1987.51
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