Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Family of the sitter, by descent to his great-grandson Nils Ehnbom, Köpingebro, Sweden. London sale,...
Family of the sitter, by descent to his great-grandson Nils Ehnbom, Köpingebro, Sweden. London sale, Sotheby's, 26 November 1986 (lot 4, repr.), Portrait of Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal, £50,600 to Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd., London. Purchased by the CMA through Eugene V. Thaw, New York, in 1987.
The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988). Christen Købke, 1810-1848. Statens Museum for Kunst (organizer) (February 10-May 27, 1996). Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst. The Golden Age of Danish Painting (1993-94), 9, 151 (no. 62), 153 (repr. in reverse). (The Copenhagen venue was added at a later date.) Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst. Christen Købke 1810-1848 (1996), 356 (no. 59a, repr.).
The sitter (1812-1844) was born on the island of Saint Thomas, at that time a colony in the Danish West Indies. He was sent to Copenhagen to study medicine and later set up practice at Satrup in Schleswig, then part of Denmark. For health reasons, he returned with his wife to the Virgin Islands, where they both died in 1844.
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 1 structured provenance events · 2 structured exhibitions.