Een zieke in bed
Carel Frederik Curtenius Bentinck
1824 - 1849
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
0; 348
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
Carel Frederik Curtenius Bentinck’s “Een zieke in bed” offers a quiet, intimate glimpse into a moment of illness. Created as a lithograph sometime between 1824 and 1849, the print shows a figure resting in bed, rendered with the soft tonal gradations that lithography made possible. The medium, invented only a few decades earlier, allowed artists to draw directly on stone and produce multiple impressions, bringing detailed images to a broader public than traditional engraving or painting could reach. Measuring 348 mm in height, the work carries the verso collector’s mark Lugt 2228, evidence of...