Bertha Wegmann (b. Soglio, Switzerland 1847, d. Copenhagen 1926)
French harvest workers working in the field. Signed B. Wegmann. Oil on canvas. 35×52 cm.
Exhibited: Charlottenborg, “Bertha Wegmanns Mindeudstilling“, October 1926. Presumably one of the numbers 118–121, all depicting French harvest workers and all listed as ”Studie til det større høstbillede, Ecouen ved Paris" (Study for the larger harvest painting, Ecouen in the vicinity of Paris), and dated 1888.
Wegmann was in France several times in the 1880s. From her stay in 1888–89, several landscape studies from Brittany and Ecouen are known.
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