Florentine Standing Before a Mirror

Details

SALLY RUBEN HENRIQUES (COPENHAGEN 1815-1886)
Florentine Standing Before a Mirror
signed and inscribed 'Sally Henriques/20 – 10/41' (lower right)
oil on canvas
34 1/8 x 25 in. (86.8 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted in August-September 1841.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 3 September 2002, lot 1419, as Kvindelig model foran et spejl.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

Bruun Rasmussen Bredgade, International Auktion 727, Copenhagen, 9 December 2003, p. 30, under lot 1225, illustrated, as Modellen Florentine.
E. Fabritius, The Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. Danish Art Collection, New York, 2005, pp. 360, 362, under no. 113, illustrated, as Female Model Standing Before a Mirror.
P. Stokes, The Naked Self: Kierkegaard and Personal Identity, Oxford, 2015, pp. 72-73.

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Please note this work was painted in 1841 and not as stated in the printed catalogue.

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Lot Essay

Florentine was a model at the Royal Danish Academy in 1840 and 1841. In the summer of 1841, she was painted in two poses which were seen from various angles around the room by students of the Academy including C. W. Eckersberg, L. A. Smith, J. C. Dahl, H. J. Hammer, Sally (Salomon) Henriques and his brother Nathan, among others. The present work depicts the second pose, which she stood for from August 9th to September 18th. Eckersberg appears to have been standing just to the left of Sally Henriques while painting his version of Florentine in this pose, a painting which is now in the Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen.

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