Jens Juel (b. Balslev, Funen 1745, d. Copenhagen 1802)
Portrait of Maria Helena Kortright née Hendrickson in three-quarter profile with light brown, medium-length curly hair covered by a thin tulle cloth. Brown eyes and fair skin with red cheeks. Wearing a dove-blue dress, held together by a brown belt with a large silver buckle and a black stone on which is a figurative scene. Dusty green background. C. 1785. Unsigned. Oil on canvas laid on panel. 70 × 54 cm. Oval framing in a four-sided frame.
Provenance: By descent through the family of the portrayed until 1999. Bruun Rasmussen auction 671, 1999 no. 207, ill. p. 17. Bruun Rasmussen auction 815, 2010 no. 39.
Condition report available on request
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