Valdemar Hjartvar Købke (1813–1893), the Artist's Brother
Christen Købke
ca. 1838 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings
This portrait of Købke’s younger brother in his seaman’s uniform was painted soon before the artist left Copenhagen for a sojourn in Italy. It is an incisive likeness, remarkable for its psychological intensity. Købke, who is widely regarded as the greatest Danish painter to emerge from the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts, brought a distinctive clarity and luminosity to the naturalist aesthetic of his teacher, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.
- Artist
- Christen Købke
- Date
- ca. 1838
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1990
