Jens Juel (b. Balslev, Funen 1745, d. Copenhagen 1802)
Portrait of Christophe Battier, accountant in Asiatisk Kompagni (Asiatic Company). He is wearing a red brown jacket and seated at a table with a green tablecloth, reading a book. Signed and dated Malet af (painted by) J. Juel København d. 24. Juli 1772. Oil on canvas. 79×62 cm.
Ellen Poulsen, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Jens Juel no. 118, reproduced vol. II p. 82.
Exhibited: Kunstforeningen, “Jens Juel malerier i privat eje”, 1982 no. 24.
Literature: Carl V. Petersen,“Juleroser”, 1930 p. 10. “Kunst i Privat Eje”, 1945, vol. II, p. 214, reproduced p. 215 (owner merchant Chr. U. Jacobsen). Ellen Poulsen, “Jens Juel”, 1961 plate 34. Gunnar Buchwald, “Samtaler med en samler” (Conversations with a Collector - Ejler Ruge), 1972.
Provenance: Bought with the pendant depicting Anna Elisabeth Battier, in London by councillor Emil Glückstadt, his auction, Winkel & Magnussen 17, 1923 no. 164. Bought by consul general C. F. Glad, his auction, Winkel & Magnussen 100, 1931 no. 417, reproduced p. 33, here bought by merchant Chr. U. Jacobsen. ABR auction 233, 1969 no. 166, reproduced on the frontispiece, here bought by landowner Ejler Ruge. Lizzie Ruge, Raadegaard (1991).
The portrait of Anna Elisabeth Battier is at Statens Museum for Kunst (The Danish National Gallery), inv. no. 3634.
Christophe Battier was a senior in the Reformed Church in Copenhagen, he had to leave the church because of peculation and went to Sweden. He later died in Paris 1783.
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Selected art, 28 November 2011