Viggo Pedersen (Danish 1854-1926)
The Artists Wife and Child
 
Oil on board, signed lower right "Viggo Pedersen"
 
This painting depicts the artist's first wife Elisabeth with one of their children, possibly Stefan or Johannes. Viggo Pedersen was married to Elisabeth Borup in the early 1880s. She was to have four children with him between 1885 and 1896, Ruth Sora Viggo Pedersen, Christen Jul Viggo Pedersen, Stefan Viggo Pedersen, and Johannes “Ais” Viggo Pedersen. In 1898, the Pedersens moved to one of the structures in the historic Karlsberg estate. When his wife Elisabeth died in 1905 at the age of only 45, Viggo Pedersen remarried to Johanne Louise Aagaard with whom he had one more son, Enoch Viggo Pedersen. The family continued to live at Karlsberg until 1911.
J21239
$18,500