Cleveland Museum of Art

Little Regine in Vallekilde

Johan Thomas Lundbye

Date

1839

Medium

etching on laid paper

Culture

Denmark

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Johan Thomas Lundbye belonged to the youngest generation of artists working during Denmark’s Golden Age, a period of unprecedented creative activity during the first half of the 19th century. An avid painter and draftsman, he simultaneously created more intimate prints such as this one depicting his cousin, Regine. The young girl appears knitting, surrounded by whimsical and anecdotal sketches that play on the experimentality of etching. The subject of this print, Johan Thomas Lundbye’s cousin Regine, wore the distinctive bonnet seen here to obscure her face following a childhood accident.

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