LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

50.79 in. (129.00 cm.) (height) by 36.61 in. (93.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Stockholm, Swedish National Museum, Alexander Roslin, 2007, p. 130 no. 4, and colour plate, p. 174.

Literature:

G.W. Lundberg, Roslin, Liv och Verk, 1957, I, p. 139, III, p. 65, no. 344. P. Bjurström, Roslin, Höganäs, 1993, p. 112.

Provenance:

Given by King Christian VII to the French envoy Charles Ogier in 1772 (inscribed on frame: 'Donné en 1772 par Sa Majesté danois au Comte Ogier d'Ivry, conseiller d'Etat, ancien ambassadeur de France à la Cour de Danemark'). Ogier d'Ivry, Château de Verboise, Orne. Private collection, France, 1957. Anonymous sale; Kunsthallen Kunstauktioner, Copenhagen, 5 February 1992, lot 114 (sold 1,600,000 DK to the father of the present owner).