Christen Købke (b. Copenhagen 1810, d. s.p. 1848)
Purchased by the National Museum in Stockholm in September 2014
“Skolebestyrer J. Krohn som barn, kunstnerens søstersøn.” Headmaster J. Krohn as a child, the artist's nephew. 1846. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 30×25 cm.
Emil Hannover, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Christen Købke no. 155.
Mario Krohn, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Christen Købke no. 187.
Jørgen Folmer and Iben From, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Christen Købke no. 187.
Exhibited: Kunstforeningen, “Malerier og Studier af Christen Schiellerup Købke”, 1884 no. 115.
Copenhagen, “Raadhusudstillingen af Dansk Kunst til 1890”, 1901 no. 1068.
Kunstforeningen, “Fortegnelse over Christen Købkes Malerier”, 1912 no. 185.
Kunstforeningen, “Christen Købke”, 1953 nr. 100. Statens Museum for Kunst, “Christen Købke 1810–1848”, 1996 no. 187, reproduced p. 335.
Literature: “Kunst i Privateje”, 1945, vol. III, mentioned p. 290. Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen, “Christen Købke”, 1996, vol. III, reproduced p. 196 and mentioned p. 206 as follows (in Danish): “Then there is already more substance in the portrait, Købke did in 1846 of his sister Sophie's son, the later known headmaster, Johan Krohn. The whole being of the child is friendly directed out of the picture, as always with Købke we are introduced to a whole human being who is already a character. He is sitting right here, like all the children Købke saw, so quite himself in his nice brown dress and with a little white collar around his neck.”
Provenance: Mrs C. Krohn (1884). Johan Krohn (1915). Iron founder Brandt's collection, Winkel & Magnussen auction 77, 1930 no. 72. Cecilie Brandt, Odense (1945, 1953), Tyge Brandt.
Johan Jacob Krohn (1841–1925) was the son of the sculptor and medallist F. C. Krohn and Christen Købke's sister, Sophie Susanne Købke. He was a writer and headmaster at the prestigious private school for boys Krebs' School in Copenhagen from 1880 to 1914. As a writer, he wrote several stories for children. The most famous is “Peters Jul” (Peter's Christmas, 1870) with illustrations by his brother, the painter and director Pietro Krohn.
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Paintings & drawings, 16 September 2014