Johan Tobias Sergel
"Skäl (!) och Tanka på Dömestorp. / Kroppen i Köpenhamn"
Signed on verso "le Comte et Sergell". Pencil drawing with watercolour 18 x 22.5 cm. Signed "Sergell" in pencil.
Provenance
Earlier in the Ehrensvärd Collection at Tosterup, Skåne.
Earlier in the collection of Einar Perman, Stockholm.
Literature
Sten Åke Nilsson, "1700-talets ansikte. Carl August Ehrensvärd", 1996, page 278 (wrong ownership stated there)
More information
Ehrenswärd aquried the estate of Dömestorp in 1796 where he spent most of his life after that. Before Sergel’s visit the two friends began a correspondence likened to a ping pong game where the friends sent drawings between them, returning them instantly upon receiving a letter. This drawing is the two friends kept a part by distance but united in mind and by pen. It is probably executed around Christmas in 1796/7 when Sergel travelled on to Copenhagen to see another good friend, the Danish painter and sculptor Abildgaard.