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Portrait of Frederik Christian Krag (1726-1763)
Louis Tocqué (French, 1696–1772)
1761
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- height 121.8 cm, width 96 cm
- Culture
- French
- 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
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
About this work
In keeping with Rococo fashions, the artist has portrayed Frederik Christian Krag wearing a tight-fitting waistcoat and jacket, lace frills and a powdered wig with a short ponytail tied back by a silk ribbon. Specialising in portraits, the French painter Louis Tocqué was invited to Denmark by king Frederik V to contribute to the decoration of Christiansborg Palace. But the king was not the only one to benefit from the French artist’s talents; members of the aristocracy did the same. Toqué received commissions from several prominent members of the state administration, including Christian Krag. In the paternal line Krag was the last scion of an old noble Jutland family. Egeskov Palace on Funen was among the family’s many estates, and the portrait was part of its collection until 1985.
