Armchair

Applied Arts of Europe

c. 1854-55

Gustav Friedrich Hetsch (Danish, 1788-1864)
Copenhagen

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Artist: Gustav Friedrich Hetsch (Designer)
Title: Armchair
Place: Copenhagen (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1839–1849
Medium: Mahogany and beech
Inscriptions: Mark: Tilhører / Leo Johansen; Danish royal crown and the number 7 (branded to the underside of chair rail)
Dimensions: 97.8 × 63.5 × 53.4 cm (38 1/2 × 25 × 21 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Diane Rex Kelly
Reference Number: 2025.123

Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (later King Christian IX of Denmark) (1818–1906), Bernstorff Slot, c. 1854–55. Leo Johansen. Peter Brandt-Jensen, Copenhagen, by Nov. 2002; sold to Carlton Hobbs, New York, Nov. 2002; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2025.

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