Jens Juel (b. Balslev, Funen 1745, d. Copenhagen 1802)
Purchased by Det Nationalhistoriske Museum Frederiksborg in september 2021.
“Selvportræt med kone og barn”. Self-portrait with wife and child. Jens Juel in a plum-coloured suit with long white socks, Rosine in a gray-blue dress, white fichu, which the child puts his hand under and lifts. Study. 1792. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 31×27 cm.
Ellen Poulsen, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Jens Juel no. 576.
Provenance: Consul General Th. Olesen probably bought the painting at Koedfoed's auction 25 October 1815 no. 17 with the title “Ligeledes en original esquisse (skitse) af Juel, forestillende ham selv med kone og barn”. (Likewise an original esquisse (sketch) of Juel, depicting himself with wife and child)“. Widow Verdier and others, auction 13 April 1908 no. 78: ”Family group by Jens Juel?", Bought by art dealer Larsen. An auction 15. April 1921 no. 26. Bruun Rasmussen auction 465, 1984 no. 200, reproduced p. 65.
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Paintings and drawings, 21 September 2021