Lot
19
Warsaw 1819 – 1881 Copenhagen
A Mermaid (En Havfrue). 1847/61
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EUR 250,000
- 400,000
USD 281,000
- 449,000
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Thursday, 26.11.2026, 6:00 PM
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Wanda Zahrtmann, m. Countess Danneskiold-Samsøe, Copenhagen (acquired Christmas 1861 by the artist) / Private Collection, Copenhagen (acquired 1986 by the descendants of Danneskiold-Samsøes)
Spring exhibition. Kopenhagen, Schloss Charlottenborg, 1862. cat. no. 306 in the addendum (“En Havfrue. Tilhører Frøken Wanda Zahrtmann") / International Exhibition. London, South Kensington Palace, 1862, cat. no. 1525 (“A Mermaid. Miss Zahrtmann, Copenhagen.") / Dansk guldalder - Verdenskunst mellem to katastrofer. Stockholm, Nationalmuseum and Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, 2019/20, cat. no. 34, ill. p. 48
Nicolai Bøgh: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. En karakteristik, Copenhagen 1886, p. 180, 217-218, 239, 243 / Exh. cat. Petit Palais, Paris, Paris Musées, 2020: L'Âge d'or de la peinture danoise (1801-1864), ill p. 288 / Jerzy Miśkowiak: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann - Nationalromantikkens enfant terrible, Frederiksberg, Frydenlund, 2019, p. 82, 106, w. ill. / Søren Schauser: Sådan har du aldrig set dansk guldalder før, in: Berlingske, 3. Sektion onsdag 28. August 2019, p. 22-23, w. ill. / Jerzy Miśkowiak: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Olszanica, Bosz, 2020, p. 94-95, w. ill
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