A Sunny Street at Tivoli
1846
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 14 13/16 in. (28.6 × 37.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2015
Accession Number
2015.12
Tags
Art Historical Context
Thorald Læssøe’s *A Sunny Street at Tivoli* (1846) captures the lively bustle of Copenhagen’s famed Tivoli Gardens, an amusement park that opened just three years earlier and quickly became a symbol of modern leisure and national pride during Denmark’s Golden Age. As a Danish artist active in the mid-19th century, Læssøe specialized in detailed architectural and street scenes, blending realism with a touch of romantic light to evoke everyday vibrancy. This drawing, housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Drawings and Prints department, offers a glimpse into urban life amid Tivoli’s enchanti...