Art, literature & history
Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal
1833
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 45 x 37 x 7.5 cm (17 11/16 x 14 9/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 33.5 x 25.6 cm (13 3/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1987.51
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Christen Købke. Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal. The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Dr. Johann Henning Kjetil Hjardemaal — Christen Købke. 1833.
Medium: oil on fabric. Dimensions: Framed: 45 x 37 x 7.5 cm (17 11/16 x 14 9/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 33.5 x 25.6 cm (13 3/16 x 10 1/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
The sitter (1812-1844) was born on the island of Saint Thomas, at that time a colony in the Danish West Indies. He was sent to Copenhagen to study medicine and later set up practice at Satrup in Schleswig, then part of Denmark. For health reasons, he returned with his wife to the Virgin Islands, where they both died in 1844.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.