View from the Battery towards the City, 1836. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783-1853). Pen and black ink, pencil and grey wash on paper; sheet: x cm (7 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.). 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 de
View from the Battery towards the City, 1836. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783-1853). Pen and black ink, pencil and grey wash on paper; sheet: x cm (7 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.). 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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