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A Woman Pleating Her Hair
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A Woman Pleating Her Hair

Ludvig August Smith
1839
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The story

Smith painted the model Cathrine Nielsen in 1839 at Eckersberg's private summer course, where students worked from a female model in the good summer daylight. His teacher painted a closely similar picture of her that is now in the Louvre.

Source, Nationalmuseum Stockholm

Object details

Title
A Woman Pleating Her Hair
Artist
Ludvig August Smith
Date
1839
Culture
Not recorded
Medium
Oil on canvas
Object type
Paintings
Collection
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (NM 7317)
Credit line
Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number
EFA.1025
Original image
2464 × 3000 px
Source record
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License evidence
See the license

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