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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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393219
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View from the Battery toward the City
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393219
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drawing
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View from the Battery toward the City
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.
date
1836
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q117244818
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393209
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Drawing
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import
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Sheet: 18.5 x 31.5 cm (7 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
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Denmark
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2020.225
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graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper
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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
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DR - Misc. Countries
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
didYouKnow
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.
citations
citation
Conisbee, Philip, Kasper Monrad, and Lene Bøgh Rønberg. <em>Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853</em>. Exh. Cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2003.
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Mentioned: p. 145
citation
<em>C.W. Eckersbergs dagbøger 1870-1837</em>. Vol. 1 (Copenhagen: Nyt Nordisk, 2009).
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Mentioned: p. 703
citation
Dauschek, Anja. Regine Gerhardt, and Vanessa Hirsch. <em>Melbye: Maler des Meeres, Painter of the Ocean</em>. Exh. Cat. Hamburg: Altonaer Museum, 2017.
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Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 65, 96
citation
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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Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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2026-05-29 08:58:42.792000
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393219
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Drawings
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graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper
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