Nicolai Abildgaard, 1803 - Simo and his former slave Sosia - fine art print

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In the year 1803 Nicolai Abildgaard painted the artpiece. Moveover, this artwork is included in the Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark)'s digital collection in Copenhagen, Denmark. This public domain artwork is supplied with courtesy of National Gallery of Denmark.: . Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has an image ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Nicolai Abildgaard was a male painter, whose artistic style can mainly be classified as Romanticism. The Danish painter lived for a total of 66 years and was born in the year 1743 in Copenhagen and passed away in 1809.

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After a broken and unhappy marriage, Abildgaard met his second wife Juliane Marie some time before 1800. This new, reinvigorating relationship introduced new themes in his art, leading him to address aspects of love.

Scenes from Terence's romantic comedy During the time after 1800 he created four large canvases to be placed in the residence provided for the couple at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at Charlottenborg, filling them with scenes from the ancient writer Terence’s romantic comedy Andria.

Connection between Terence and Abildgaard In the painter’s version of the complicated dramatic intrigues, they begin when the central character, Simo, asks his black chef Sosia to pretend that he is hastening the marriage of Simo’s son.

The scene in the foreground links Terence and Abildgaard through a sequence of allusions: Terence was a slave who had been given his freedom, and in the picture Abildgaard based the black chef’s appearance on a medal that he himself designed on the occasion of the Danish ban on slavery.

In the play the chef is in fact also a liberated slave, and the playwright was from Africa himself. In the last picture in the series, Abildgaard makes an appearance accompanied by his wife and child – providing a kind of counter-signature to balance out the first picture’s introduction of the playwright.

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