id:			393219
accession number:	2020.225
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.225
updated:		2022-10-29 18:06:27.583000

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
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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, 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
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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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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
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Melbye: Maler des Meeres, Painter of the Ocean</em>. Altonaer Museum, Hamburg (September 20, 2017 - February 4, 2018).

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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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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.

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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

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