File:Christian VII 1772 by Roslin.jpg

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Christian VII of Denmark

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Alexander Roslin: Q122422152  wikidata:Q122422152 reasonator:Q122422152
Artist
Alexander Roslin  (1718–1793)  wikidata:Q315102
 
Alexander Roslin
Description Swedish painter and portraitist
Date of birth/death 15 July 1718 Edit this at Wikidata 5 July 1793 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Malmö Sankt Petri församling Paris
Work period from 1740s
date QS:P,+1740-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
until 1791
Work location
Bayreuth, Paris, Saint Petersburg
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q315102
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Portrait of King Christian VII of Denmark, half-length, in coronation robes and holding a crown and sceptre
label QS:Len,"Portrait of King Christian VII of Denmark, half-length, in coronation robes and holding a crown and sceptre"
label QS:Lda,"Portræt af Christian VII, knæstykke, i kroningsdragt og holdende krone og scepter"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
in a Louis XVI frame carved with stiff-leaf and ropetwist and headed by a scrolling cartouche
Date 1772
date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 129 cm (50.7 in); width: 93 cm (36.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,129U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,93U174728
institution QS:P195,Q3078776
Object history
  • Given by King Christian VII to the French envoy, Count Jean-François Ogier d'Ivry (1703-1775) in 1772 (inscribed on frame: 'Donné en 1772 par Sa 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
    institution QS:P195,Q768717
    , France, 1957.
  • Anonymous sale; Kunsthallen Kunstauktioner, Copenhagen, 5 February 1992, lot 114 (sold 1,600,000 DK to the father of the last private owner). Sold at Christie's, London, on 8 December, 2009 (sale 7782, lot 32) for £241,250 to the Frederiksborg Museum, Denmark.
Exhibition history Stockholm, Swedish National Museum, Alexander Roslin, 2007, p. 130 no. 4, and colour plate, p. 174.
Inscriptions On top of wooden frame: "Donné en 1772 par Sa M:te [Majesté] Danoise au C:te Ogier d'Ivry C:llier [Conseillier] d'Etat ancien ambassa: [ambassadeur] de France à la cour de Dannemarc."
Notes

Literature:

  • G.W. Lundberg, Roslin, liv och verk, 1957, I, p. 139, III, p. 65, no. 344.
  • P. Bjurström, Roslin, Höganäs, 1993, p. 112.
  • Mette Skougaard, "Portræt af en enevældig. Christian VII og Alexander Roslin", in: Enevælden på Frederiksborg, Hillerød: Det Nationalhistoriske Museum på Frederiksborg Slot, 2010.
Source/Photographer Frederiksborg Slot and Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5277785

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