Anton Bertzig

Portrait of a Lady in an elegant costume

1890

Provenance: Private Collection, Copenhagen Private Collection, New York In her lifetime the work of Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann was greatly acclaimed across Europe, but especially in Denmark, her adopted country where she lived for the majority of her career. She contributed paintings to the World’s Fair in Paris (1855 and 1867), London (1862), and Vienna (1873). At an exhibition in London in 1852, her works caught the attention of Queen Victoria, who requested a private exhibition at Buckingham Palace and acquired her portrait of an Icelandic woman now in The Royal Collection. She achieved considerable success as a portraitist, and painted several members of European royalty and aristocracy, as well as fellow artists and other notable people of her time. An intimate Self-portrait at age thirty-one reveals the sensitivity of Baumann, both as artist and subject, while a later portrait photograph presents her as a consummate professional, at a table easel—brush, palette and mahlstick in hand—intently studying the subject that she is painting (Figs. 1-2). Baumann was born to German parents in Warsaw, Poland. At the age of nineteen she entered the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf—then one of the premier art centers in Europe—and spent her formative years working in the context of the Düsseldorf school. Her early subject matter was drawn from Polish life and her native country’s struggles during its rebellion against Russia. Her paintings of a destitute Polish family in the ruins of their burned hut and of a refugee mother with a child were exhibited in Cologne and sold to prominent European collectors. The earnings from these early sales allowed her to travel to Italy—an essential part of artistic development in the early nineteenth century. Baumann arrived in Rome in 1845. There, she met her husband, the renowned sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau...

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