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Deck of a Warship
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Deck of a Warship

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 9 7/16 × 11 7/8 in. (24 × 30.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Charles Z. Offin and Mary Oenslager Funds, 2016

Classification

Prints

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.