Portrait

WILHELMINA KEMPE, 12-year-old Copy (after photograph) of Gustaf Sjöberg The original photograph taken in the winter of 1856-1857 by photographer J. Richard, Stockholm, see gr LXV, Photographs: K.I: A.c.1. Almost a full figure, sitting on a chair and turning half to the left, the head in half profile to the left, the right arm of a rounded table top, the hand hanging, the left hand in the knee, holding a book (M. A. Blanchard: “Le Livre des Enfant, Anecdotes Morales,” Paris 1854, see gr LXIII, Library) and with his thumb inched between the leaves. The gaze to the spectator; dark hair with middle leg, smooth down combed to the sides and in the garnish, at the robe; wide dark shoulder collar with a frowned edge strip and attached to an oval dark brooch; devious embroidered white neck collar with run-duded edge; white undersleeves with winding and wrinkled wide strip. The chair with contoured back and carved top. On the table top a balusterform vase with flowers. The portrait against standing oval dark background. The light from the right. On paper. Frame (original): Of wood, gilded in matt and shiny. Glass. Back of pine, with broadly bevelled edges. Gustav Robert Sjöberg August 18, 1870 in Stockholm, reproduction technician, opera singer, member of the Artist’s Club in Stockholm. The drawing made by Wilhelmina von Hallwyl, see count, offset 5 February 1920. Paid 6 February 1920. Price: Kr 500. The frame completed at the carpenter Edv. Johansson, Kammakaregatan 7, Stockholm. The gilding made at the gilder Aug. Dahlstedt, Mäster SamuelsD55, Stockholm.