File:Agnes Slott-Møller - The Dying Betrothed.jpg
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Agnes Slott-Møller: The Dying Betrothed
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The Dying Betrothed |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Excerpt from the lot essay: "The Dying Betrothed depicts a scene from a Danish folk song Liden Kirsten. It portrays the moment when Liden Kirsten finds her Betrothed dying. Overcome with grief, she kisses the hand of her love tenderly as he pushes his treasures towards her, forsaking his mother's wish that he think first of his brothers and sisters. Like Carpaccio's funeral image, the picture is cleverly divided into two. On the right we see what looks like a balcony strewn with small branches of fir, as is the custom in Danish funerals. Beyond the balcony is a ship sailing into the distance, its sail becoming ghostly as it merges with the colour of the sky. This is most probably the ship of death waiting to take her betrothed away. What Slott-Møller has achieved which perhaps Carpaccio has not, is the real poignancy of the image. The way in which she has compressed the image, for example, so that the sadness of the figure seen on the left is heightened in this limited space. The solid divide between the girl with her betrothed and the ship also emphasises the gulf between this world and the next. The Dying Betrothed was painted in 1906 and was exhibited at the Charlottenborg Spring exhibition in the same year. Agnes Slott-Møller was subsequently awarded the Eckersberg medallion by the Royal Academy. This was a well-deserved award for a hauntingly beautiful image." |
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| Date | 1906 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 82.5 cm (32.4 in); width: 135 cm (53.1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Unknown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history | Sold at Christie's, London on June 17, 2004 for GBP 57,360 (Lot 6916/41). christies.com. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history | Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 1906 no. 412. kunstbib.dk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Signature and date bottom right: Agnes Slott-Møller 1906
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| References | A. Slott-Møller, Folkevise Billeder, Aschehourg & Co., Copenhagen, 1923, p. 100. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.reddit.com/r/museum/comments/gcuole/agnes_slottm%C3%B8ller_the_dying_betrothed_c_1906/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The author died in 1937, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer.  You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 80 years: Mexico has 100 years and Jamaica has 95 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. |
| This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. | |
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| current | 00:27, 4 May 2020 | | 1,996 × 1,192 (365 KB) | Opencooper (talk | contribs) | =={{int:filedesc}}== {{Artwork |description={{en|1=The Dying Betrothed}} |date={{circa|1906}} |source=https://www.reddit.com/r/museum/comments/gcuole/agnes_slottm%C3%B8ller_the_dying_betrothed_c_1906/ |artist={{Creator:Agnes Slott-Møller}} |permission= |other versions= }} =={{int:license-header}}== {{PD-old-auto|1937}} 1906 Category:Fur blankets in art Slott-Møller, Agnes |
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