oil on canvas
110 X 89 cm
At a time when photography was still in its infancy as a technique and an art form, the family portrait was still very much in vogue. Having one's children portrayed was a social marker and allowed one to leave an image of one's success to posterity.
In this portrait we have three children, two boys in sailor suits and a girl, all three of them posed in their summer clothes, one of the boys holding a book on his lap.
Wilhelm ROSENSTAND (1838-1915)
was a Danish painter and illustrator who stayed in Rome from 1869 for several years on a scholarship from the Academy, then came to Paris to visit Léon Bonnat in 1881 and 1882. He returned to Denmark in 1883.
