Focus on The Waagepetersen Family (Bendz) and explain the Description.
The painting shows Christian Waagepetersen seated by his desk in his study in the Waagepetersen House- He has just been interrupted in his work by his wife Albertine and two of their children. Albertine is carrying the youngest of the two children, Louise, on her arm. Her slightly older brother Fritz is leaning up against the father's leg. The family's dog is lying under the desk, symbolising faithfulness and stability.
That the two oval portraits on the wall are Jens Juel's portraits of Waagepetersen's parents Lorentz Petersen  (1763-1829) and below them is a portrait of Frederik VI. The frog in the tall glass cylinder on the mahogany desk was used as a sort of primitive barometer: Whenever the frog moved up to the surface it meant fair weather.
Jens Juel Christian Waagepetersen Waagepetersen House Lorentz Petersen