Signac's tak til enkedronning Sophie Amalie

Abstract

Summary The so‐called Signac picture (published in this journal XXXVI, 1967, pp 50–54) is a collection of miniatures which seem to depict independent portraits and not copies of the current “type gallery”. The picture is connected with the wedding of Charles XI of Sweden and Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark in 1680, and the absence of the bride's father must be put down to the fact that the mother, the dowager queen Sofie Amalie, was portrayed after 1670. A Swedish painter is known to have been at the dowager queen's court at Nyköbing Castle on Falster in November 1679, and in the following year a Swedish painter (probably the same one) sent a portrait as a gift to the dowager queen. In return she gave him a costly gift which he acknowledged in a versified letter signed Signac. In Rosenborg Castle can be found a miniature which echoes the Signac picture's portrait of Wilhelmine Ernestine, the sister of Ulrika Eleonora. Its provenance from the royal family in the 18th century makes it possible, that this was the portrait Signac sent to Denmark in the year 1680.