Focus on this artwork and explain the Artist.
Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann was a German-speaking, German-educated  female artist. When in 1848, she  came to Copenhagen she had a lot to overcome. She was characterized as an outsider and was not well received in Danish culture, which was more concerned with the continuation of the legacy of the Danish Golden Age as expressed by C. W. Eckersberg and N.L. Høyen.The portrait was painted in 1846, the same year that Baumann and Jerichau married.
Copenhagen Danish Golden Age N.L. Høyen C. W. Eckersberg