拍品描述：
品状报告:
The work is in good condition. The work has been fully revarnished, visible on close inspection. There is minor rubbing to the corners and edges in places, hairline paint cracking to the edges in places and small holes to the canvas along the turnover edges where the work was nailed to the stretcher, all only visible on close inspection and not visible when the work is framed. There is a minute consolidated pincture towards the upper left horizontal edge, a minor paint loss to the centre-left (approx. 0.5 cm in length) and occasional minor craquelure in places, all only visible on close inspection. When examined under ultraviolet light, several areas of historic inpainting fluoresce under the varnish and over the varnish in places, predominantly to the upper left quadrant, lower right qaudrant and to the edges in places, all only visible on close inspection and under raking light. Otherwise, there are no apparent condition issues with this work. The work is framed in a gold gilt wooden frame.
来源:
私人收藏（哥本哈根，Arne Bruun Rasmussen第465號拍賣會，1984年10月2日，拍品編號53）
現藏者購自上述拍賣
过往展览:
Greenwich, Bruce Museum of Art and Science; Poughkeepsie, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Danish Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. , 2005, no. 21, pp. 24, 72-73, 100-101 (illustrated, pp. 73, 100-101)
New York, Scandinavia House, Danish Paintings from the Golden Age to the Modern Breakthrough, Selections from the Collection of Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. , 2013-2014, no. 7, pp. 62-63 (illustrated, p. 63)
文学:
John L. Loeb Jr., et al., The Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. Danish Art Collection , New York, 2005, no. 15, pp. 41-43 (illustrated, p. 42)
Patricia G. Berman, In Another Light, Danish Painting in the Nineteenth Century , New York, 2007, pp. 236, 239 (illustrated, p. 236)
Kerry Greaves, 'Studies in Reverie', Scandinavian Review , vol. 100, no. 3, Summer 2013, p. 17 (illustrated)
John L. Loeb Jr., et al., The Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. Danish Art Collection , New York, 2017, no. 15, pp. XI, 41-43 (illustrated, p. 42)
John L. Loeb Jr., Reflections, Memories and Confessions , New York, 2017, p. 63 (illustrated)
作者简介:
Although he was the son of a grocer, by age ten the talent of Otto Bache (1839-1927) had been rewarded with a place at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Furthering his study with a scholarship to Paris and later Italy, Bache’s style became infused with European cultural trends, although he never lost sight of the Danish National Romanticist trend throughout his oeuvre, illustrating historical scenes, cosmopolitan cityscapes, peasant depictions and animal life. His conservative choices earned him continued recognition with the royal family and a long-standing association with Frederiksborg Castle; his historical depictions were especially central to the visualisation of Denmark’s royal and political legacies. By 1880, he was professor and then director of the Danish Academy, highlighting his rise through aristocratic commissions, prolific exhibiting and his own Academic training, coming to play a defining role in the visual culture of Denmark in the second half of the nineteenth century.