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Prinsesse Marie af Danmark (b. Ham, England 1865, d. Copenhagen 1909)

A bundle of pansies. Signed Marie. Inscribed Catalogue. Pencil and watercolour on board. Visible size 31.5×18 cm.

A letter mounted on the back.

Marie Amélie Francoise Hélène d’Orleans was born a princess of the House of Orleans, a branch of the old French royal family Bourbon. She came to Denmark in 1885, when she married the Danish Prince Valdemar, youngest son of King Christian IX. She started painting as a young woman and received instruction in France from the artist Madeleine Lemaire. In Denmark she was a student of Otto Bache, Frants Henningsen and C. M. Soya-Jensen, who taught her watercolour painting.

Princess Marie especially made watercolours with flowers, animals and fruit arrangements. She exhibited at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1901 and 1902. Several of her drawings and watercolours were printed as postcards. The profits from the sale of her works were donated to charity.

Princess Marie's personal circle of acquaintances included artists such as Bertha Wegmann and Laurits Tuxen and authors such as Herman Bang and Otto Benzon. She was also a member of the Academy. In 1903 she was the patron of a flower exhibition in Tivoli in Copenhagen, where the present work was presumably exhibited.

Princess Marie was popular with the Danish population, and in 1912 a memorial dedicated to her, created by the sculptor Carl Martin-Hansen, was placed on Langelinie in Copenhagen.

Provenance: The artist Augusta Dohlmann (1847–1914).

Condition

Minimal discolourations and a minimal scratch with paper loss. Minor paper loss in lower right corner. Examined in frame.

Additional Remarks

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Auction

Paintings, furniture and varia, 28 June 2021

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