Peter Christian Skovgaard (Danish 1817-1875)

Peter Christian Skovgaard (Danish 1817-1875)
An August Morning (Himmelbjerget, from Lake Juul)
Signed and dated PSkovgaard. 1868 (lower left, PS in ligature)
Oil on canvas
127 x 189.2cm; 50 x 74½in

Provenance:
Sotheby's, London, 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours, 2 April 1998, lot 5, where purchased by the present private collector

Exhibited:
Copenhagen, Charlottenborg, 1869, no.197;
Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, 1917, no.349

Literature:
Karl Madsen, P C Skovgaard og hans sonner (Copenhagen, 1918);
Henrik Bramsen, Malerier af P C Skovgaard (Copenhagen, 1938)