Bertha Wegmann (b. Soglio, Switzerland 1847, d. Copenhagen 1926)
“To børn i en have”. Two children in a garden. Signed B. Wegmann. Oil on canvas. 212×141 cm.
Exhibited: Charlottenborg 1897, no. 430.
Provenance: Merchant P. Petersen (1897).
The painting was donated by Palle Helmer Petersen to Hammel Hospital (today part of Hospitalsenhed Midt) sometime before 1970, and it has been in the ownership of Hospitalsenhed Midt until today.
Palle Helmer Petersen (1891–1977) and his older brother Kai Helmer Petersen (1888–1927) were sons of merchant Peter Johan Ditlev Petersen (1857–1923) and his wife Anna Marie Louise Hansen (1849–1940).
The two children in the painting probably represent the two sons Palle and Kai, aged 5/6 and 10/11, respectively, and the work has thus been handed down in the family.
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Paintings & drawings, 30 November 2021
Not sold