Egron Lundgren - Interior of a Kitchen, c. 1840
Regular price 22 412 krEgron Sellif Lundgren (1815–1875) Sweden
Interior of a Kitchen, c. 1840
oil on paper laid on cardboard,
inscribed “Lundgren Nr. 15” on the reverse.
unframed 27.5 x 20.5 cm (10 ¾ x 8 in.)
framed 37 x 30 cm (14 ½ x 11 ¾ in.)
Provenance:
Chief Physician Karl Martin (†1936);
his estate sale, Stockholm, Bukowskis, 22 April 1936, cat. no. 305, lot 37: “Egron Lundgren, Interior with Still Life. Study from the 1840s” (sold for 120 SEK to Director Gösta Stenman (1888–1947), Stockholm).
Essay:
Lundgren stayed in Paris from 1839 to 1841 as a scholarship holder of the Royal Academy, studying under Léon Cogniet (1794–1880). From there he travelled on to Rome, where he remained until 1849. No oil paintings from his Paris years are known, only pencil sketches.
The present work, executed in Rome during the 1840s, is one of four oil sketches once in the collection of Chief Physician Karl Martin, which were dispersed after his death at the Bukowskis sale on 22 April 1936 (lots 35–38). The others were Roman Choir Boy, Interior with a Boy, and Prison Interior, all of similar size. Two of these were acquired by Director Gösta Stenman.
The kitchen depicted here is situated below ground level, as indicated by the vaulted architecture. A pencil drawing in the Nationalmuseum’s collection, Vault with Old Staircase (NMH A 313/1981), undated, shows certain affinities with the present painting.
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