Vilhelm Kyhn (b. Copenhagen 1819, d. Frederiksberg 1903)
View from Hindsgavl towards Fænø and the coast of Jutland. Signed with monogram and dated 1870–78. Oil on canvas. 135 × 190 cm. Period frame richly decorated with oak leaves.
Provenance: Bruun Rasmussen auction 1532, 2015 no. 25. Auktionshuset 27 May 2016.
The following information on a label on the reverse of the frame (in Danish): “Farewell gift for naval officer August Garde by his appointment as governor of the Danish West Indies. Purchased at auction about 1920 by Doctor of Medicine Erik Garde who with his wife Elizabeth in 1970 gave it to their daughter Kirsten and her husband Henrik Gamst-Pedersen”.
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Fine art, 4 March 2024