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Barneportræt
C.A. Jensen (Danish, 1792–1870)
1834
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- height 31 cm, width 27 cm
- Culture
- Danish
- Museum
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
About this work
This portrait of a child painted in 1834 by C. A. Jensen is on canvas. The original canvas is no longer visible from the back due to the later addition of a lining canvas. Lining is a method of conservation that involves reinforcing a painting from the back with a new canvas. The lining on this painting is a wax resin lining made by adding a heated, liquid mixture of beeswax and resin to the new canvas. The additional canvas is attached to the original canvas with an iron. In Denmark the tradition of lining canvas paintings using this method has existed since the early 1900s. The method peaked in the 1960s, and disappeared entirely during the 1980s. Today we no longer line paintings with wax resin because we know that the method makes paintings particularly sensitive to humidity.
