Per Krafft d.y., oil on relined canvas 135.5 x 103 cm. Signed and dated 1838.

Portrait depicting Baron ”Christer Carlsson Posse of Säby” (1776 - 1836). Signed P. Krafft and dated 1838. relined canvas 135.5 x 103 cm. Period frame.

Insignificant surface dirt. Crazings. Scattered minor scratchmarks. Retouches. Yellowed varnish.

Provenance

Colonel C. Scheffer's estate, Djursholm, Sweden.
Thereafter inherited.

Exhibitions

Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna, 1838, cat nr 9.

Literature

Evald E:son Uggla, Per Krafft dy och samtida svenskt porträttmåleri”, 1928, cat no 306, p 305.
Emil Hultmark, ”Kungl. Akademiens för de fria konsterna utställningar 1794-1887”, 1935, p 156.
Sixten Strömbom, "Index över svenska porträtt 1500-1850", volume II, 1939, listed at p. 644, SPA 1934:155 a. (An identical composition, dated 1823, is also listed as belonging to Skaraborg's regiment, Skövde).

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