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Johan Thomas Lundbye belonged to the youngest generation of artists working during Denmark’s Golden Age, a period of unprecedented creative activity. This drawing depicts a wooded area on a narrow bay near the town where the artist grew up. Lundbye worked outdoors, directly from nature, aiming to create a work that conveyed his experience of nature. With exacting precision, he conveyed the scene’s solitude and featured a large dolmen, meant to allude to the region’s ancient past.
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518331
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Asnæs Skov, Bay at Kalundborg Fjord
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drawing
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518331
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drawing
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Asnæs Skov, Bay at Kalundborg Fjord
description
Johan Thomas Lundbye belonged to the youngest generation of artists working during Denmark’s Golden Age, a period of unprecedented creative activity. This drawing depicts a wooded area on a narrow bay near the town where the artist grew up. Lundbye worked outdoors, directly from nature, aiming to create a work that conveyed his experience of nature. With exacting precision, he conveyed the scene’s solitude and featured a large dolmen, meant to allude to the region’s ancient past.
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1839
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en
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Q115755110
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518328
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Drawing
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Support: 26 x 37.9 cm (10 1/4 x 14 15/16 in.); Matted: 36.2 x 48.9 cm (14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.); Image: 19.1 x 30 cm (7 1/2 x 11 13/16 in.)
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Denmark
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2022.87
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Pen and black ink and gray and brown ink washes with arched framing line in pen and black ink, bordered in pink watercolor on modern cream laid paper
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Asnæs Skov, Bay at Kalundborg Fjord, 1839. Johan Thomas Lundbye (Danish, 1818–1848). Pen and black ink and gray and brown ink washes with arched framing line in pen and black ink, bordered in pink watercolor on modern cream laid paper; support: 26 x 37.9 cm (10 1/4 x 14 15/16 in.); matted: 36.2 x 48.9 cm (14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.); image: 19.1 x 30 cm (7 1/2 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Alma Kroeger Fund, 2022.87
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DR - Misc. Countries
inscriptions
inscription
Inscribed and signed, black ink, lower left: Landskab ved Kallundborg Fjord. Asnæs Skov. Dec 1839. Johan Th Lundbye
inscription
inscribed, black ink, lower right: 2/1 1840 tilf. Fuldmagtig Secher i Kanders
inscription
Stamped, on verso, black ink, lower left: mark of Kunstforeningen (Lugt 988c)
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inscribed, ink, lower left: Kunstforeningen København
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inscribed, pencil, at center: 2/1 40 [illeg.] Secher
inscription
inscribed, pencil, lower right: 10
inscription
Watermark, at center: C&I HONIG / XX
didYouKnow
Copenhagen’s Kunstforeningen, an exhibition society for contemporary art, purchased this drawing from Lundbye shortly after its creation—a practice meant to extend the organization’s support of artists.
citations
citation
<em>Arbejder af Johan Thomas Lundbye: Udstillede I Kunstforeningen I K</em>ø<em>benhavn</em>. Exh. Cat. Copenhagen: Kunstforeningen, 1893
page_number
Mentioned: p. 27, no. 178 (possibly)
citation
Madsen, Karl. <em>Johan Thomas Lundbye, 1818–1848</em>. Copenhagen: Kunstforeningen, 1895
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Reproduced: p. 64; Mentioned: p. 65
citation
<em>Fortegnelse over Kunstforeningens Samling af tegninger og akvareller</em>. Copenhagen: V. Winkel & Magnussen, 1933
page_number
Mentioned: p. 47, no. 571; Reproduced: p. 25
citation
Madsen, Karl. <em>Johan Thomas Lundbye, 1818–1848</em>. Copenhagen: Glydendalske, 1949
page_number
Mentioned: p. 88–89; Reproduced: p. 96
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Alma Kroeger Fund
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2026-05-29 09:05:11.342000
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518331
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Drawings
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DR - Misc. Countries
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Pen and black ink and gray and brown ink washes with arched framing line in pen and black ink, bordered in pink watercolor on modern cream laid paper
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