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Study of a Model (woman standing by a bed arranging her hair)

c. 1840 to 1841

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The story

From 1839 Eckersberg ran a private summer course built around a female model, and his diaries identify this woman as Florentine, hired in 1840 and 1841. Instead of a classical pose, he painted her combing her hair beside a bed, by daylight, in an everyday room.

Source, Nationalmuseum Stockholm

Object details

Title: Study of a Model (woman standing by a bed arranging her hair)
Artist: C.W. Eckersberg
Date: c. 1840 to 1841
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (NM 7315)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.1026
Original image: 1353 × 1994 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

C.W. Eckersberg. Study of a Model (woman standing by a bed arranging her hair). c. 1840 to 1841. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (NM 7315). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea1026/