Ludvig Richarde, Steam Frigate At Copenhagen

Ludvig Richarde, Steam Frigate At CopenhagenThis expansive late 19th century marine painting by Swedish artist Ludvig Richarde (1862 1929) depicts a Danish steam frigate off the coast of Copenhagen. Richarde was never content to merely record what stood before him. Throughout his oeuvre, he shows himself to be a painter of intention a man who used the sea not only as a subject but as a language. Here, this broad pale view presents far more than a simple coastal observation it reveals an artist

a doting grandmother attends to a top hat

a fan devotee

produced a likeness of Flying Fox

Throughout the 19th century

Italy and the bright lights and buzzing ateliers of Paris

Note how the light is suggested with small dabs of white

Organ grinders were street performers that operated a barrel organ - usually by turning a crank

their forms softened and obscured by cloud vapour

Perhaps these are his daughters

A bright mid-20th-century Italian coastal landscape by artist

532 achieved for ‘A young student shows a young girl the antique collection at the National Gallery of Denmark’ at an auction in 2019 in Denmark

including the National Museum in Stockholm