Laurits Tuxen. 'Susanna in the Bath'

Automatic translation from Danish.

Laurits Tuxen (1853-1927): Portrait study for 'Susanna in the Bath'. Oil on canvas. Signed: 'L.T.' 40 x 37 cm. (52 x 49 cm.)

At the request of the French artist Léon Bonnat, Tuxen chose to paint a picture with a nude figure for the Paris Salon of 1878 as the conclusion of his studies in Paris. Tuxen initially tried 'Samson and Dalia', but ultimately chose 'Susanna in the Bath' as motif for a nude figure. Prior to completing the final work, Tuxen produced a long series of detailed studies, which he co-composed in the final work, and which individually stand out as works of art in their own right, including the portrait study offered here, which must therefore be assumed to have been produced around the end of the 1870s.