Leopold Morsing, Portrait Study Of A Woman

Leopold Morsing, Portrait Study Of A WomanThis early 20th century drawing by Swedish artist Leopold Morsing (1887 1971) depicts a model with head turned. As a young man, Morsing was thrust into an ever advancing art scene with emerging modernist ideas filtering into Stockholm. Many of his contemporaries had trained in Paris and returned galvanised by the avant garde. Art was changing, moving away from the rigours of academic thinking and towards a brighter, more liberal future. He trained

The painting dates to around 1650 and it’s fascinating to think that landscape painting

heading for open pasture

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 20½” x 16½” / 52cm x 42cmYear of creation: c

One patched repair with corresponding in-painting

1895Provenance: DenmarkCondition: Heavy craquelure throughout and yellowing

It can be revarnished if you prefer

a well-known social reformer and Quaker

His other subjects included depictions of jovial cardinals gathering in lavish interiors and ‘orientalist’ scenes abundant with a profusion of colour

Several of her works from the late 19th-century depict abundant bouquets

he showed her the newly-completed masterpiece

less erratic

he worked hard over several years to impress him