Explore the Description of this artwork, Portrait of the Sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau, the Artist's Husband.
The portrait shows Jerichau sitting and looking slightly off to the side rather than directly at the viewer. The focus is on the sculptor's hands, the creative hands. In the left hand Jerichau carries  an engagement ring and in the right hand he holds some material probably from the sculpture in the background, a sketch for a breakthrough work of Hercules and Hebe from 1845. The artist shows her husband's mastery of the sculptor tradition.