Alexander Roslin
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"Alexandrine Elisabeth Roslin" (1761-1797)
Signed Le Chev. Roslin and dated 1787 (the signature possibly improved). Canvas 73.5 x 60 cm.
Provenance
Alexander Roslin, thereafter Alexandrine Elisabeth Roslin.
Thereafter inherited within the family.
Nathanael Wildenstein, Paris, France (acquired the painting from the family in Paris).
Wholesale dealer Ernst Hirsch Elliot (1863-1927), Stockholm, Sweden.
Managing director Helge Norlander, Stockholm, Sweden.
Captain Peter Adolf Schollin-Borg, Åby estate, Sweden.
Managing director Nils Nessim, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bukowskis Auction 5-8 November 1975, auction 399, catalogue no 193.
Bukowskis Auction 22-25 April 1981, auction 416, catalogue no 288.
Bukowskis International Autumnauction 24-25 November 1999, auction 514, catalogue no 365.
Exhibitions
Malmö museum, 1925 (exhibited by Malmö museum together with Malmö friends association for a collection to try to acquire the painting to Malmö Museum).
Malmö museum, Exhibition about Roslin 1962, catalogue no 76.
Literature
"Svenska hem i ord och bilder", 1920, p. 244-245, ill. p. 251.
Sydsvenska Dagbladet, article by Mattisson 31 May 1925, ill.
Sydsvenska Dagbladet, article by Mattisson 26 July 1925.
Mattisson, "Några porträtt i Skåne" ("Stud. i konstvet. Tillägn. E Wrangel", 1928) ill. and mentioned at p. 150.
Lundberg in Thieme-Becker, "Künstlerlexikon" (1935).
Lundberg, "Roslinporträtt i Frankrike" (Paper of artsudies) XIX, 1935) p. 51.
Lundberg, "Några nyupptäckta Roslinska familjeporträtt" (Ord och Bild, 1951) ill. p. 103.
Gunnar W. Lundberg, Roslin, Malmö 1957, ill. pl. 176, catalogue no 595.
Svenskt Konstnärslexikon, Allhems förlag, 1961, volume 4, p. 532.
Exhibitioncatalogue for Malmö Museum, 1962, catalogue no 76.
Thieme-Becker Künstlerlexikon, 1992, volume 29, p. 27.
Per Bjurström, Roslin, Wikens förlag, 1993, p. 139, 142, 230, ill. p. 206.