ALEXEI PETROVICH BOGOLIUBOV | View of the Naval Port at Copenhagen from the Windows of Amalienborg Palace

Commissioned by Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich, the future Tsar Alexander III, in Denmark in 1867

Presented by Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich to his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna, Christmas 1867

Collection of Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna at Anichkov Palace, until the early 1870s

Imperial Collection at Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, mid-1870s

Alexander Palace Museum, after 1918

Acquired by the father of the present owner in the 1970s in the United States

‘Catalogue of Paintings Belonging to Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Tsesarevna’, Veliki knyaz’ Aleksandr Aleksandrovich: Sbornik dokumentov, Moscow, 2002, pp.638-639, no.14 listed; p.675 listed

In June 1867 the future Tsar Alexander III and his wife Maria Feodorovna travelled to Copenhagen on an official state visit. They were in attendance at the opening of the new Christian IX bridge connecting Falster and Laland islands with the Danish King, Maria Feodorovna's father. Bogoliubov accompanied the couple and painted a number of small-scale paintings documenting the trip which later formed part of the couple's private collection at Anichkov palace.