Christen Købke (b. Copenhagen 1810, d. s.p. 1848)
A seated boy. Study. Signed Köbke. Pencil on paper laid on cardboard. Sheet size 18.3×14.4 cm.
In 1833 Købke painted “Siddende dreng”. Seated boy. At Statens Museum for Kunst (the Danish National Gallery). Købke had previously drawn several model studies of the boy in different poses, cf. Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen “Christen Købke. Omkring Kastellet”, Vol. 1, Copenhagen 1996, “Siddende dreng” fig. 216, reproduced p. 321 and “Modelstudier af drenge” fig. 217, reproduced p. 322. The present drawing is presumably from the same period.
Provenance: The estate of Johan and Randi Dæhnfeldt.
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Paintings & drawings, 17 September 2013