id: 393219 accession number: 2020.225 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.225 updated: 2022-03-19 09:00:34.405000 View from the Battery towards the City, 1836. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783-1853). Graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper; sheet: 18.5 x 31.5 cm (7 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2020.225 title: View from the Battery towards the City title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1836 creation date earliest: 1836 creation date latest: 1836 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: Denmark, 19th century technique: graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper department: Drawings collection: DR - Misc. Countries type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783-1853) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 18.5 x 31.5 cm (7 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed and dated, at lower right: Eckersberg fec. 1836; inscribed on verso: Eckersberg 7 Sept. 1836; perspective indications in graphite across lower border at 4 cm intervals; vertical line through center translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Melbye: Maler des Meeres, Painter of the Ocean. Altonaer Museum, Hamburg (September 20, 2017 - February 4, 2018). --- PROVENANCE Estate of the artist [1785-1853], Copenhagen, Denmark date: 1836-1853 footnotes: citations: (his sale, Copenhagen, January 1854, no. 375) date: 1854 footnotes: citations: Private collection, Denmark date: ?-2015 footnotes: citations: (sale, Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, November 24, 2015, no. 61) date: November 24, 2015 footnotes: citations: (Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-2020 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg depicted the view seen in this work, of Copenhagen from the small island of Trekroner, in several other works including a painting in Denmark’s Hirschsprung Collection. digital description: 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 with expressively rendered clouds. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Conisbee, Philip, Kasper Monrad, and Lene Bøgh Rønberg. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853. Exh. Cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2003. page number: Mentioned: p. 145 url: C.W. Eckersbergs dagbøger 1870-1837. Vol. 1 (Copenhagen: Nyt Nordisk, 2009). page number: Mentioned: p. 703 url: Dauschek, Anja. Regine Gerhardt, and Vanessa Hirsch. Melbye: Maler des Meeres, Painter of the Ocean. Exh. Cat. Hamburg: Altonaer Museum, 2017. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 65, 96 url: Kehlembeck, Gerhard and Thomas le Claire. The Danish Golden Age: Ten Drawings from Private Collections. Hamburg: Le Claire Kunst, 2019 page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 6 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.225/2020.225_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.225/2020.225_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.225/2020.225_full.tif