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A Section of the Via Sacra, Rome (The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian)
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A Section of the Via Sacra, Rome (The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian)

Medium

Graphite, brush and gray wash, framed with graphite and brush and blue watercolor

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 13/16 x 13 3/4 in. (25 x 35 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2012

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

1783–1853Kingdom of Denmark

Known for his minutely detailed portraits with a Neoclassical sense of clarity and line. He was an influential teacher at the Copenhagen Academy from 1818 where he introduced painting from nature. Danish painter.