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JOACHIM FERDINAND RICHARDT
Denmark1819-1895
The harbour in Mölle, Kullen, Sweden
Signed or inscribed "Richardt. Mollebye v. Kullen", in ink on the reverse, Oil on board 27.5 x 38 cm.
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This Danish "Golden Age" picture was probably painted around 1840, when Richardt studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. Mölle, a former fishing village, situated on the peninsular "Kullen" in Scania in South of Sweden across the straight that separates Denmark and Sweden. It is today a popular summer resort.
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Richardt visited Sweden at several occassions. In 1852-53 he published Scanian manors (Skånska herregårdar), 78 litographs based on his original drawings, and between 1864-69, Manors in Södermanland (Herregårdar uti Södermanland), comprising 57 litographs.
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Richardt is most famous for his depictions of the Niagara Falls, the first of which he painted during a stay in the United States between 1855-59. So famous are his depictions of this subject that one of them was chosen to decorate the Statuary Hall, New York during the customary luncheon following the Second inauguration of Barack Obama. Senator Charles Schumer, the Chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, stated why this particular painting was chosen: "For me as a New Yorker, Niagara Falls never fails to inspire a tremendous awe for the natural beauty of our great country. Then and now, the mighty falls symbolize the grandeur, power and possibility of America.".
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In 1873, Richardt with his family moved to the United States. They lived first in the town of Niagara Falls, N. Y. where the artist again produced canvases depicting the great waterfall and the surrounding area, in 1875 in San Francisco, and finally, in 1876, in Oakland. He exhibited and sold his works in San Francisco until at least 1887. Today his paintings are held and exhibited by museums and other public institutions in the United States and Denmark, two hang in The White House, Washington, D. C. (for further reading see P. D. Schweizer & M. Y. Stuart, Ferdinand Richardt: Drawings of America, 1855-1859, 2007, M. Y. Stuart & N. P. Stilling: Danish Manorhouses and America, Landscape Art of Ferdinand Richardt (1819-1895), 2003 and M. Y. Frye: Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (1819-1895), a Danish Artist in the American Landscape (1855-1859), 1993).

Auktionsnummer:

3196

Datum:

2016-12-08