Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal (1833): Art, History and Details

Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal (1833) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Christen Købke (Danish, 1810–1848).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal
• Date: 1833
• Creator attribution: Christen Købke (Danish, 1810–1848)
• Culture: Denmark
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on fabric
• Dimensions: Framed: 45 x 37 x 7.5 cm (17 11/16 x 14 9/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 33.5 x 25.6 cm (13 3/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1987.51

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1987.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (February 1988): 30–71.
• Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. “Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Portrait of Crescentia, Countess Zichy (later Countess Széchenyi) with a Parrot and a Camellia in a Mountainous Landscape.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 1 (1994): 3-17.
• Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.

View the collection record

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