Carl Balsgaard (b. Copenhagen 1812, d. s.p. 1893)
“Københavnsk gadescene. Vinter.” A winter day in Copenhagen. A young boy gives alms to a poor weeping girl who has dropped a jug. 1840s. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 68×58 cm.
Provenance: Consul General Johan Hansen's collection no. 24 (1917).
Carl Balsgaard studied at the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts and was a private student of C. W. Eckersberg (1783–1853). However, he developed in a different artistic direction than the one associated with the Eckersberg's school. He specialized in still lifes with fruits and flowers, and from 1842 he also worked with porcelain painting. However, Balsgaard also made several figure paintings, and, as it appears from the catalogues of the Charlottenborg Exhibitions, he exhibited a number of genre paintings in the 1840s. He was later appointed conservator for the private painting collection of Christian IX of Denmark (1818–1906) and was a teacher for Queen Louise (1817–1898) in 1864.
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Paintings & drawings, 6 March 2023
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