Anna Petersen, 1884 - Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the Hothouse - fine art print

Artwork description as provided from the museum (© - Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) - www.smk.dk)

In Anna Petersen’s day women were not allowed to vote, nor to enrol at the Academy of Fine Arts. The artist has shown this woman engaged in thought rather than labour, thereby manifesting how women are independent, thinking beings in their own right.

Replanting

The girl looking after plants in a hothouse is not, in fact, looking after anything while she is being painted. This may be because she is modelling, but also because she has an inner life of such strength and fervour that she cannot simply just toil. In the 1880s, painting women with inner lives of their own clearly demonstrates how women are arriving at a new sense of self-worth. They are not simply the property of men, nor are they unthinking creatures ruled by their urges. This woman is her own mistress, and she knows how to cultivate nature. She lives at a time ripe for replanting in order for new flowers to grow - both at a concrete level and metaphorically.

"What we want"

Anna Petersen was a friend of Anna Ancher, Marie Luplau, Emilie Mundt, and Bertha Wegmann. They were not allowed to enrol at the Academy of Arts, nor to vote, but fervently wished for those rights - if not for themselves, then at least for future generations of women. Despite these restrictions, Anna Petersen was quite successful as an artist for a while. In 1899, Marie Luplau wrote a description of Anna Petersen’s paintings in the journal "Hvad vi vil. Organ for Kvindesagen - Fredssagen - Arbejdersagen" ("What We Want. A Journal for The Women’s Cause - The Peace Cause - The Workers’ Cause"), stating that they might seem slightly dry, but that the artist excelled at working with "the Atmosphere of the scene". Despite the support of her friends, whose numbers included the highly influential J.F. Willumsen, Anna Petersen sold no works to museums while she lived, and she suffered from a growing "nervous restlessness" that gradually robbed her of the ability to work.

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About the artwork created by the Realist artist Anna Petersen

The more than 130 year old masterpiece was painted by the female artist Anna Petersen. Besides, this artpiece is in the the digital art collection of Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark). The modern art public domain piece of art is being provided with courtesy of National Gallery of Denmark.The creditline of the artwork is: . What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Anna Petersen was a painter of Danish nationality, whose style can primarily be assigned to Realism. The Danish artist lived for a total of 65 years and was born in 1845 in Copenhagen and died in the year 1910 in Copenhagen.

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