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Linear Perspective, Applied to the Art of Painting: A Collection of Studies in Perspective
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Linear Perspective, Applied to the Art of Painting: A Collection of Studies in Perspective

Medium

Eleven etched plates

Dimensions

13 7/8 × 20 11/16 × 1/2 in. (35.2 × 52.6 × 1.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2008

Classification

Books

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.