Johanne Luise Heiberg, née Pätges, 1812-1890, actress
The portrait was painted in the middle of the crisis that had led to the couple's break with the Royal Theatre in 1858, to which the seriousness of the figure, according to the subject's recounting of the artist's words, is an allusion.
1859
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Room 57
Frederiksborg - castle and museum
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