1879, Christian Krohg, The Net Mender -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Krohg painted this working couple at Skagen, a village on the coast of Jutland in Denmark that hosted an influential artists' colony, in the summer of 1879. His models were the fisherman Niels Christian Gaihede (1816-1890) and his wife, Ane Gaihede (1812-1904). Renouncing the sentimentality associated with peasant subjects then current in Nordic art, Krohg gave vent to an insistent objectivity that struck contemporaries as idiosyncratic to a fault when this work was exhibited in Oslo soon after it was completed. This criticism prompted Krohg to paint a more restrained version (National Museum, Oslo).
1879, Christian Krohg, The Net Mender -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Krohg painted this working couple at Skagen, a village on the coast of Jutland in Denmark that hosted an influential artists' colony, in the summer of 1879. His models were the fisherman Niels Christian Gaihede (1816-1890) and his wife, Ane Gaihede (1812-1904). Renouncing the sentimentality associated with peasant subjects then current in Nordic art, Krohg gave vent to an insistent objectivity that struck contemporaries as idiosyncratic to a fault when this work was exhibited in Oslo soon after it was completed. This criticism prompted Krohg to paint a more restrained version (National Museum, Oslo).