ID: 700008165 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008165	Record Type: Movable Work

Portrait of Peder Hjort (drawing (visual work); Carl Barth (German, 1787 - 1853) (German Artist); about 1818 - 1819; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 2009.10)

Note: The proposed sheet is a small-format portrait of Peder Hjort made to commemorate the close friendship between an artist and a critic who strove to promote similar aesthetic ideals. Hjort was a Danish writer and art critic, who greatly advanced the classicizing ideals of his compatriot's Bertel Thorvaldsen's sculpture abroad in Rome. Hjort's wish to establish a collection of sculptures by Thorvaldsen came to fruition in 1848 when a museum dedicated to the sculptor opened in Copenhagen. Barth arrived in Rome in 1817, and he quickly became associated with the Nazarenes-a group of artists who lived a monastic life and set about to purify art by reviving the spirit and style of religious painting. In addition to making masterful small-format portrait drawings of his Nazarene associates, Barth developed a reproductive engraving style that was very influential in the dissemination of his own friends' work, especially that of Thorvaldsen.Made as an independent work, the proposed sheet is composed like a miniature with fine lines of a sharp pencil. It reveals the ease, vigor, and elegance of the soft silvery strokes that ones find in Barth's other portraits of his friends in Rome. Through the direct gaze, placement of the sitter in the immediate foreground, and amazing sense of preternatural light, Barth conveys a great intensity of expression.

Titles:

Portrait of Peder Hjort (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1818 - 1819

Creator Display:

Carl Barth (German, 1787 - 1853) (German Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

draftsman Barth, Karl (German draftsman and engraver, 1787-1853) [500015833]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.10

Other: Creation: Deutschland [7000084] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Graphite and ink

	graphite (mineral) [300011098]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, mineral)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

Dimensions: 9.5 x 9.3 cm (3 3/4 x 3 11/16 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Hjort, Peder (Danish writer and art critic, 1793-1871) [500355295]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Portrait of Peder Hjort	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)