Carl Christian Hillman Jacobsen (1842 –1914) was a Danish brewer, art collector and philanthropist, founder of the Carlsberg brewery in Copenhagen, later to become the current international conglomerate. His vast collection of ancient art, modern sculpture (notably Degas & Rodin) and 19th century French and Danish painting is housed in one of Denmark’s most important museums, the Ny Carlsberg Glyprothek, built by the Danish state in 1888-97.

Our presentation will focus on the French collection which includes works by Jacques-Louis David, Millet (Death and the Woodcutter, 1858) Manet (The Execution of Maximilian, 1867), Monet (Belle-Île-en-Mer, 1886), Pissarro, Sisley (The Pomp at Marly, 1873) Renoir, Degas and Cézanne as well as Post-Impressionist art by van Gogh, Gauguin (dozens of paintings left with his Danish wife, Mette-Sophie Gad) Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard. We will also discover some very fine examples of the art of the “Danish Golden Age” of the early 19th century by its key painters, Eckersberg, Købke and Lundbye.