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Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
Signed and dated in black paint bottom right corner: C Köbke 1833
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
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).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Christen Købke (Danish, 1810–1848)
- Date
- 1833
- Medium
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1987.51
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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