Viggo Christien Frederik Wilhelm Pedersen was born in Copenhagen in 1854. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1871 to 1878. He began his artistic career as a traditional naturalist, following the ‘plein air’ trend of Danish landscape painting in the 1880s. His work was decisively influenced by close contact with the Danish artists P.C. Skovgaard and Janus La Cour. Under the influence of Skovgaard, Pedersen adopted bright colours, which he often used in his rendering of figures.
Pedersen made a number of study trips through France and Italy, including a trip to France in 1881, where he was influenced by the Barbizon school and its Romanticist depictions of peasant life in nature. He received an honourable mention at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889 and a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. He exhibited with the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1908 and 1911, as well as Den Frie Udstilling (The Free Exhibition), a Danish artists' association founded in 1891 in protest against the admission requirements for the Academy.
Viggo Pedersen’s landscapes, genre scenes, and figure paintings are featured in the Statens Museum for Art, Copenhagen; the Hirschsprung Museum, Copenhagen; the National Museum, Oslo; the Kunstmuseum, Goteborg; the National Museum, Stockholm; and many others.
Viggo Pedersen (Danish 1854-1926)
The Sheep Are Gathered Together
Oil on canvas, signed, dated and inscribed lower right "Viggo Pedersen Roma 1883", titled on label on stretcher: "The sheep are gathered together…at night to…the Roman Campagne/Viggo Pedersen"
Size: 24 ½ x 45 ¾ in (with frame 32 ¼ x 53 ¼ in)
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Viggo Pedersen visited Sora, Italy in 1883–84, and exhibited several works at the Danish Royal Academy in 1884 (numbers 260-265) with motifs of sheep and shepherds from the landscape around the region.
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