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Sailing Vessels at Wilders Plads, Copenhagen
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Sailing Vessels at Wilders Plads, Copenhagen

Medium

Pen and black ink with brush and brown and gray wash

Tags

Dimensions

sheet: 8 7/16 x 6 5/16 in. (21.5 x 16 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2003

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.