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The Doctor´s Wife Reveals her Husband´s Intention of Anatomising Niels Klim
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Værkdatering: 1785-1787
Abildgaard påbegyndte Niels Klim-malerierne i 1785 og afsluttede serien inden sin afrejse til Berlin i december 1787 (jf. Kasper Monrad, "Et genfundet maleri af Abildgaard", i H. Jönsson m.fl. (red.), De lyse sale. Festskrift til Bente Skovgaard. København 1990, p. 114 note 1).
Title: The Doctor´s Wife Reveals her Husband´s Intention of Anatomising Niels Klim
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