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Summary

Martinus Rørbye: Young Clergyman Reading

Artist



Alternative names	Martinus Christian Wesseltoft Rørbye
Description	Danish painter and graphic artist
Date of birth/death	17 May 1803	29 August 1848
Location of birth/death	Drammen Municipality	Copenhagen
Authority file	: Q979541 VIAF: 13112340 ISNI: 0000000066751828 ULAN: 500010331 LCCN: n81134950 WGA: r/rorbye WorldCat

Title

Young Clergyman Reading

English: Young Clergyman Reading

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Date

1836

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 39 cm (15.3 in); width: 27.5 cm (10.8 in)

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

	Native name	Art Institute of Chicago
	Location	Chicago, United States of America
	Coordinates	41° 52′ 46″ N, 87° 37′ 26″ W
	Established	1879
	Website	www.artic.edu
	Authority file	: Q239303 VIAF: 131375374 ISNI: 0000000091672697 ULAN: 500304669 LCCN: n82144329 OSM: 1870546 WorldCat

Accession number

2013.56

Object history

Presumably by descent to Athalia Rørbye (died 1919), daughter of the artist, owned by her in 1905.
Anonymous art dealer.
Sold at Bruun Rasmussen Auctions on December 2, 2002 for DKK 1,200,000 (EUR 162,000), (Lot 716/1153). bruun-rasmussen.dk.
Offered for sale, Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, Copenhagen, November 28, 2007, lot 61, as Den laesende abate, bought in [according to an email from Birte Stokholm, Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, to Margaret Crosland dated August 4, 2014, copy in curatorial object file];
Sold Bruun Rasmussen International, Copenhagen, November 28, 2011, no. 17, as Den laesende Abate (Young clergyman reading) to Galerie Michel Descours [buyer according to an email from Mehdi Korchane, Galerie Michel Descours, to Margaret Crosland dated September 3, 2014, copy in curatorial file; the email from Birte Stokholm dated August 4, 2014 cited above indicates the picture was consigned by the same owner in 2007 and 2011];
Purchased by the Art Institute, 2013.

Exhibition history

Charlottenborg, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 1836, no. 59.
Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Fortegnelse over M. Rørbye, March–April 1905, no. 90.

Credit line

Through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland

References

ARTIC artwork ID: 216794

Source/Photographer

Art Institute of Chicago

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