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A Young Artist (Ditlev Blunck) Examining a Sketch in a Mirror

1826 · Oil on canvas

The painter Ditlev Blunck checks a sketch in a mirror, a trick artists used to see their work afresh, painted by his friend Bendz.

ArtistWWilhelm Bendz
MuseumSStatens Museum for Kunst
MovementDDanish Golden Age
LocationCopenhagen, Denmark
Genreportrait
Dimensions98 × 85 cm
SourceWikidata Q20278308

Why it matters

The young painter Ditlev Blunck holds up a sketch to a mirror to check the composition, surrounded by his tools. Bendz shows the artist as a serious intellectual rather than a craftsman.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1826.
  • It is one of Bendz's series of artists at work.
  • Blunck's sketch was for a portrait of the painter Jørgen Sonne.

Based on the Wikipedia article A Young Artist (Ditlev Blunck) Examining a Sketch in a Mirror (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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