Prints / Portraits & Caricatures

Sandberg, J. G.

Carl Michael Bellman [A portrait from "Galleri af utmärkta svenska lärde witterhetsidkare och konstnärer från Gustaf I:s till närvarande"].

[Stockholm] [Portrait signed] 1835 [Published 1842] 47,5 x 32 cm. Lithograph.

A few minor stains and creases to the outer margins. Very nice condition.A portrait of Carl Michael Bellman. A swedish cultural icon. Johan Elis Cardon lithographed the portrait. His education in the 1830s Paris coincided with the great period of french lithography. He became the best of all swedish lithographers side by side with Carl Johan Billmark. In 1843 he recieved the title "Royal lihographer". The present portrait is from the finest of all portrait galleries published in Sweden in the 19th. century.

Item No: 1750.