id:			393219
accession number:	2020.225
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.225
updated:		2025-02-09 07:56:21.667000

View from the Battery toward 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 toward the City
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creation date:			1836
creation date earliest:		1836
creation date latest:		1836
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Denmark
technique:	graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Misc. Countries
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783–1853)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 18.5 x 31.5 cm (7 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
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	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
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Melbye: Maler des Meeres, Painter of the Ocean</em>. Altonaer Museum, Hamburg (September 20, 2017 - February 4, 2018).', 'opening_date': '2017-09-20T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Estate of the artist [1785-1853], Copenhagen, Denmark
	date: 1836-1853
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	(his sale, Copenhagen, January 1854, no. 375)
	date: 1854
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	Private collection, Denmark
	date: ?-2015
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	(sale, Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, November 24, 2015, no. 61)
	date: November 24, 2015
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	(Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-2020
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Conisbee, Philip, Kasper Monrad, and Lene Bøgh Rønberg. <em>Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853</em>. Exh. Cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2003.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 145
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	<em>C.W. Eckersbergs dagbøger 1870-1837</em>. Vol. 1 (Copenhagen: Nyt Nordisk, 2009).
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 703
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	Dauschek, Anja. Regine Gerhardt, and Vanessa Hirsch. <em>Melbye: Maler des Meeres, Painter of the Ocean</em>. Exh. Cat. Hamburg: Altonaer Museum, 2017.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 65, 96
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	Kehlembeck, Gerhard and Thomas le Claire. <em>The Danish Golden Age: Ten Drawings from Private Collections</em>. Hamburg: Le Claire Kunst, 2019
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: no. 6
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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.225/2020.225_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.225/2020.225_full.tif