Asnæs Skov, Bay at Kalundborg Fjord
1839
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and gray and brown ink washes with arched framing line in pen and black ink, bordered in pink watercolor on modern cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 19.1 × 30 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-193469
Johan Thomas Lundbye belonged to the youngest generation of artists working during Denmark’s Golden Age, a period of unprecedented creative activity. This drawing depicts a wooded area on a narrow bay near the town where the artist grew up. Lundbye worked outdoors, directly from nature, aiming to create a work that conveyed his experience of nature. With exacting precision, he conveyed the scene’s solitude and featured a large dolmen, meant to allude to the region’s ancient past.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Alma Kroeger Fund, 2022.87
Registry history
- 1839 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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