Madonna med barnet omgivet af fire helgener

The painting titled Madonna med barnet omgivet af fire helgener was created by Albert Küchler in 1852. Executed in oil on canvas, the work depicts the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child surrounded by four saints, reflecting its classification as religious art. The piece was completed at the beginning of the year 1852.

It is currently held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, where it remains part of the museum's holdings. No further details regarding the original commission, specific patron, or intermediate ownership chain prior to the museum acquisition are provided in the available records.

The painting is held by Statens Museum for Kunst, with inventory number KMS1967:10. It has been exhibited in the museum's 'Danish Painting in the 19th Century' exhibition from 1985 to 1986 and featured in the 1995 retrospective 'Albert Küchler: Life and Work'.

The work was created in 1852 by Albert Küchler, a Danish painter active in the mid-19th century, and depicts the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child surrounded by four saints within a religious composition. Executed in oil on canvas, the painting measures 195 cm in height and 170 cm in width, reflecting the academic realism practiced by Küchler during this period, as evidenced by his participation in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the influence of religious motifs in his broader oeuvre. Its placement within the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen underscores its significance within the institutional narrative of 19th-century Nordic religious art, where it contributes to scholarly discussions on genre painting and devotional imagery in post-Nazarene Scandinavia.

Research into Küchler’s stylistic development and the iconography of saintly companions in Marian scenes has positioned this painting as a representative example of academic religious art in Denmark, with comparisons drawn to contemporaries such as Jørgen Roed and Wilhelm Marstrand in analyses of ecclesiastical aesthetics during the 1850s.

Albert Küchler's 1852 religious painting Madonna med barnet omgivet av fire helgener entered the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst and has been cited in art historical surveys of 19th-century Danish religious art. Its composition of the Virgin with Child surrounded by saints influenced later academic treatments of devotional subjects in Scandinavia during the 1880s. The work remains part of the museum's permanent display of Golden Age paintings.

Albert Küchler’s 1852 oil painting Madonna med barnet omgivet af fire helgener presents the Virgin Mary seated on a throne, cradling the naked infant Jesus. Four saints stand around the central pair, each distinguished by their garments and gestures, while a muted landscape of hills and sky forms the backdrop.