Shipwreck on a Rocky Shore
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 4 1/2 × 5 7/8 in. (11.5 × 15 cm) Sheet: 5 3/8 × 7 1/2 in. (13.6 × 19.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Adrian T. Eeles Gift, 2010
Accession Number
2010.277
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
ShipwrecksSeasWavesShips
About the Artist
Johan Christian Dahl · 1788–1857
**Johan Christian Claussen Dahl (1788–1857)** was a Norwegian painter widely regarded as the founder of the “golden age” of Norwegian painting and the father of Norwegian landscape art. Born in Bergen on 24 February 1788 to a modest fishing family, Dahl received his earliest training in his hometown. From 1803 to 1809 he studied with the local painter Johan Georg Müller, whose workshop produced th...