Christian Krohg (Vestre Aker, August 13, 1852 - Christiania, October 16, 1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist. Inspired by the ideas of the realists he chose motives primarily from everyday life – often its darker or socially inferior sides. Particularly well known are his pictures of prostitutes. Prostitution is also the subject of his novel Albertine (1886), which caused a scandal when first published, and was confiscated by the police.
[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 100.5 x 120 cm]