View from the Battery toward the City
1836
- Medium
- graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 18.5 × 31.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-209068
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg is known for initiating Danish painting’s Golden Age—a period of cultural efflorescence during the first half of the 19th century. Marine subjects were among the artist’s favorite, and the primary focus of his work beginning in the 1820s. Dating from this period, this drawing depicts Russian ships viewed from a fortress in Copenhagen’s harbor. In his journal, Eckersberg described making the trip to see the fleet with friends and waiting for the waters to become calm enough for sailing. To convey this experience, he juxtaposed precise perspective of the landscape…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2020.225
Registry history
- 1836 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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