Lot 37
  • 37

Johan Christian Dahl

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • J. C. Dahl
  • Head of a Boar
  • dated d. 12 Marz 1822 lower right
  • oil on paper
  • 26 by 38cm., 10ΒΌ by 15in.

Provenance

Caroline Bull (née Dahl; the artist's daughter). Caroline married Anders Ørsted Sandøe Bull, an army officer, in Christiania (present day Oslo) in 1847  
Chief Justice G. J. Bull (son of the above)
General Siegwald Bull; thence by descent to the present owner, great-great-grandson of the artist

Exhibited

Kristiania (Oslo), Jubileumsutstillingen, 1914
Oslo, Blomqvist Kunsthandel, 1926, no. 144
Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, 1937, no. 212

Literature

Andreas Aubert, Maleren Johan Christian Dahl. Et stykke av forrige Aarhundredes Kunst- och Kulturhistorie, Kristiania (Oslo), 1920, p. 453
Marie Lødrup Bang, Johan Christian Dahl, 1788-1857: Life and Works, Oslo, 1987, vol. II, p. 133, no. 359, catalogued; vol. III, pl. 145, illustrated

Condition

The artist's sheet has been laid on board. There are some scattered minor signs of frame abrasion at the edges of the work. Under close inspection there is a tiny dent and very small abrasion in the right ear of the boar. This work is in good overall condition. The catalogue illustration is reasonably accurate overall, however somewhat more detail is apparent in the boar's head in reality. Presented in a narrow simple gilt frame.
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