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Children of the Danish Golden Age and French Gilt Bronzes
This week, Bruun Rasmussen will hold the year's first Live Auction in Copenhagen. The first week of auctions includes a portrait by the Danish Golden Age painter C.A. Jensen, which depicts three children from one of the influential families of the time, as well as gilt bronzes from the 18th-19th century France.
At 4 pm (CET) on Tuesday 26 February, fine art will be up for auction, including works from the Danish Golden Age. A small boy with his drum, a girl with a green dress and plump arms and a big brother in a shirt with a ruffled collar, who lovingly holds his sister around the shoulder. This is the scene of a beautiful painting by C.A. Jensen (1792-1870), who became known for his excellent depictions of people. The portrait of the bourgeoisie was an emerging genre during the Danish Golden Age. In the offered work, C.A. Jensen has made a very fine portrait of the influential Puggaard family's three children, Arnette Marie Bolette, Hans Christopher Wilhelm and Rudolph Christopher. The father, Hans Puggaard, was an enterprising businessman, while the mother Bolette defied the norms of the time for women and became an avid landscape painter. The Puggaard home functioned as a cultural meeting place for the democratically oriented artists, intellectuals and politicians of the time. Read more about the fine art up for auction.
An Allegory of America
The auction on Wednesday 27 February at 2 pm (CET) will bring antiques onto the centre stage, and here the highlights include a number of French bronzes. They were made around 1800 in the styles of Louis XVI and Empire. Leading the pack is a gilt bronze mantel clock made after a drawing by Jean-Simon Deverberie (1764-1824), which is located at the "Bibliothèque Nationale" in Paris. The clock is adorned with a young woman sitting in a feathered dress with a spear in her hand and an alligator at her feet. The elements can be interpreted as an allegory of America. Like many other artefacts from approx. 1800, the offered mantel clock can be seen as a tribute to the Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Homme Naturel". Read more about the antiques up for auction.
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Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers is one of Scandinavia’s leading international auction houses, and one of Denmark’s oldest. It all started on 6 October 1948, when Arne Bruun Rasmussen conducted the first traditional auction in the saleroom at Bredgade 33 in Copenhagen. Today, Jesper Bruun Rasmussen stands at the helm of the family-run business together with the third generation of the family, his son Frederik and daughter Alexa, and the company’s CEO Jakob Dupont.
In 2004, the first online auction was launched, and today the auction house has expanded to include departments in Copenhagen and Aarhus and representations in Sweden, Germany, England, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Spain, Italy, Thailand and the US. About 100,000 lots are put up for auction each year at the traditional auctions and daily online auctions. Here you can bid on everything from art, antiques, modern design and jewellery to books, coins, stamps, wine and weaponry.
