Jacob d'Agar, workshop (b. Charenton near Paris 1642, d. Copenhagen 1715)
Portrait of King Christian V of Denmark (1646–1699), ruler from 1670, with a long dark wig and dressed in amor and an ermine cloak next to the Royal Danish crown. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 119×110 cm.
King Christian V was the great-grandfather of King Frederik V of Denmark, whose granddaughter, Princess Louise of Hessen-Kassel, married Duke Vilhelm af Glücksburg.
Jacob d'Agar painted several official portraits of King Christian V of Denmark in the 1680s and his workshop has assissted to meet the need for more copies, donated as gifts.
Provenance: ”The Historical Collection of Four Princesses From the Cavalier House of Glücksburg Castle”. The cultural heritage after the sisters, Her Highness Princess Elisabeth of Ysenburg and Büdingen, née Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1945–2024), Her Highness Princess Irene of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1946), Her Highness Princess Margaretha of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1948), and Her Highness Princess Sibylla Ursula of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1955). Online auction no. 2545 at Bruun Rasmussen Arts Auctioneers in Lyngby, 3 November, 2025.
Some small repairs, one of them still half open. A few small retouches and peelings as well as several small cracks. Areas with previous hard cleaning. The canvas needs tightening.
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