A View of the Square in the Kastel Looking Towards the Ramparts

Christen Købke (1810 - 1848)

Scottish National Gallery

circa 1830

Depicts the bakery of the Kastellet, a Castle in Copenhagen, which served as a prison. It depicts three figures in conversation and a fourth at a pump. The figures are the artist's father, who owned the bakery, Mayor J.J.Krohn and Slave Sergeant Sporch, who worked there.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 30 x 23 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £25000 ( Total: £85,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1990
• Vendor: Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox

Provenance

J.Krohn; Jernstober Brandt, Odense; Fru E.Hjortso, Charlotenlund.

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