The Return of the Sailor
Artist/Maker
DatesMade: Made ca 1850
Material / Technique
Dimensionsh x w: Mått 73,3 x 61,5 cm [dagermått duk] h x w x d: Ram 90 x 77 x 7,5 cm
Inventory numberNM 7647
AcqusitionAccession2022 (Purchase 2021 Hedda and N.D. Qvist Fund)
Other titlesTitle (sv): Sjömannens återkomst Title (en): The Return of the Sailor
DescriptionExhibition text: Plagemann had been living in Rome for some twenty years when he realised this painting. Standing out sculpturally against the coastal landscape, a woman waits for her husband to return. Plagemann renders the sumptuousness of the traditional costume worn by the women of Nettuno, south of Rome. Genre painting? Portrait? Allegory? Trained at the Stockholm Academy and a great connoisseur of 16th-century Italian painting, the artist blurs the boundaries between traditional pictorial genres.
Collection
TechniquePainting
Object category