Portrait of My Wife, the Painter Anna Archer is an 1884 painting by Michael Ancher, now in the Hirschsprung Collection.[1]
She is shown looking through an open door, with a wedding ring on her right hand and her husband's dog looking at Anna's pregnancy bump - the study for the work was painted in summer 1883[2] and she gave birth to their daughter Helga that August. One of P.S. Krøyer's first pastel drawings of painters at work (which became a major feature of his oeuvre) was Michael Ancher Painting the Portrait of Anna, Standing at the Door, showing Ancher producing the final version of Portrait.[3] It was exhibited in Copenhagen in 1884, with the depiction of pregnancy causing some controversy, though the theme of the artist's wife soon became popular among other Danish painters.[4]
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The 1883 study for the work (Michael og Anna Anchers Hus -
Krøyer's Michael Ancher Painting the Portrait of Anna, Standing at the Door (Anchers Hus) -
Harald Slott-Møller, My Wife, 1887, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum -
P.S. Krøyer, Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist's Wife on the Beach with a Dog, 1892, Skagens Museum -
L.A. Ring, At the Garden Door. The Artist's Wife, 1897, Statens Museum for Kunst
References
edit- ^ "Catalogue entry for the final work" (in Danish).
- ^ "Catalogue entry for the study" (in Danish).
- ^ (in Danish) 24 værker - Anchers Hus, information leaflet at the Michael og Anna Anchers Hus
- ^ "Histories - Artists' Wives : Statens Museum for Kunst" (in Danish).