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A nude woman doing her hair before a mirror

Formerly, young Danish artists had been unable to receive instruction in painting at the Academy which only offered courses in drawing. However, with inspiration from France, in 1822 a school of painting was established which made up for these shortcomings. From 1833 on, the students were even given the opportunity to paint studies of female models. Eckersberg positioned the model, and often joine…

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Creator

  • Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
  • Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Subject

  • Mirror
  • woman
  • mirrors
  • Earrings

Type of item

  • oil paintings (visual works)
  • nudes (representations)

Medium

  • Oil painting
  • oil painting (technique)
  • canvas (textile material)

Creator

  • Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
  • Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Subject

  • Mirror
  • woman
  • mirrors
  • Earrings

Type of item

  • oil paintings (visual works)
  • nudes (representations)

Medium

  • Oil painting
  • oil painting (technique)
  • canvas (textile material)

Providing institution

  • Den Hirschsprungske Samling

Aggregator

  • Europeana 280

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

User generated content

  • false

Creation date

  • 1841
  • 1841

Current location

  • Den Hirschsprungske Samling

Provenance

  • Erhvervet af baronesse Stampe under et besøg sammen med Thorvaldsen i Eckersbergs atelier 9.2.1843. Erhvervet fra Fru Nanna Holtum af Heinrich Hirschsprung oktober 1895.

Identifier

  • DEN_280_007

Extent

  • 33,5 x 26 cm

Year

  • 1841

Providing country

  • Denmark

Collection name

  • 2063604_EU_280_Denmark

Timestamp created

  • 2015-12-10T15:40:40.944Z

Timestamp updated

  • 2023-09-06T08:25:22.806Z