Genève Enchères · Lot 3815
Char à foin
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Char à foin
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2026-09-22
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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Oscar Wergeland
Born : 1844Died : 1910Documented citizenships : Norway
Oskar Arnold Wergeland, usually known as Oscar Wergeland, was a Norwegian painter who lived from 1844 to 1910. Trained with Johan Fredrik Eckersberg and subsequently in Copenhagen and Munich, he devoted particular attention to history painting. From 1889 he also taught at the national school of arts and crafts.
His Eidsvold 1814, completed in 1885, reconstructs Norway’s constituent assembly more than seventy years after the event. Installed in Parliament, the painting draws on preparatory portraits and compositional studies. The Nasjonalmuseet also holds The Norwegians Land in Iceland in 872, painted in 1877. Another canvas, The Sick Child, dated 1906 in the catalogue, records his interest in more intimate subjects. Together these works show the range of his repertoire, extending from collective history to individual experience.
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