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Christen Dalsgaard (1824–1907) was a Danish painter and a late student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. He primarily painted genre paintings and Romantic nationalist folk scenes rooted in the grasslands of Jutland. Dalsgaard paid great attention to details, such as folk costumes, the manners and habits of the people, the indoor furnishings, the architecture and landscape. His artistic works, as well as those of his contemporaries, opened the way for the more realistic paintings of the late 1800s.
This picture is an oil-on-canvas painting entitled En rekonvalescent ('A convalescent'), created by Dalsgaard in 1870. The painting, which depicts a girl reading, is now part of the Hirschsprung Collection in Copenhagen.Painting credit: Christen Dalsgaard