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Christen Købke
b. Copenhagen 1810, d. s. p. 1848
Portrait of Margrethe Hahn, married Stougaard. Half-lenght
portrait in profile with a blue silk headscarf. Signed and
dated on the reverse C. Købke 14-9-1829, this now covered by
a new canvas. Oil on canvas. 21 x 18 cm.
Emil Hannover, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Christen Købke
no. 16 (in the note).
Mario Krohn, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Christen Købke
no. 18.
Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works
of Christen Købke no. 18.
Exhibited: Guildhall, London, "Exhibition of Works by Danish Painters",
1907 no. 220, in that case with a wrong provenance: Mario
Krohn. Kunstforeningen, "Fortegnelse over Christen Købkes Malerier",
1912 no. 19. Kunstforeningen, "Christen Købke", 1953 no. 14.
Statens Museum for Kunst, "Christen Købke 1810-1848", 1996 no. 18.
Literature: Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen, "Christen Købke - Omkring
Kastellet", vol. I, 1996, p. 102 and 112, reproduced p. 104.
Mogens Nykjær, "Kundskabens billeder. Om Christen Købke" in "Argos.
Tidsskrift for kunstvidenskab - visuel kommunikation - kunstpædagogik"
no. 3, 1986 p. 27.
Provenance: Always in the possession of the family of Margrethe
Hahn. Søren Sørensen, Doctor, Thisted (1893). Jerslev, Pharmacist,
Fjerritslev (1953).
In a diary from 1829 Købke writes the following on the 12th of
August: "Started to paint Grethe" and again on the 14th of September:
"Finished the painting of Grethe". (Mario Krohn, "Maleren
Christen Købkes Arbejder", 1915 p. 5). In the summer of 1829 Købke
spent a couple of months at the vicar J. C. Hahn's home. Here Købke
flirted with one of the Vicar's two daughters, Margrethe, called Grethe.
He painted the present portrait for the family, and a repetition for
himself as a memory. Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen, Art Historian,
charmingly describes the small, fine portrait in "Christen Købke -
Omkring Kastellet" p. 112: "Her face is like a winter apple, but with
a sweetness, that goes downwards and gathers around her mouth,
while the sadness in her eyes most certainly is due to her youth and the
fact that the two of them were about to part".
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