Portrait of the artist's foster father the zoologian and professor Henrik Nicolai Krøyer, Peder Severin Krøyer, 1872

The museum at frederiksborg has a study for this work. The professor had died in 1870, and the portrait draws heavily on krøyer's 1866 portrait of him. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1872. Dimensions: height: 76 cm (29.9 in) ; width: 63 cm (24.8 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Henrik Nikolai Krøyer. Peder Severin Krøyer - Portræt af kunstnerens plejefar, professor, zoolog Henrik Nicolai Krøyer - 1872