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Two women conversing on a street corner, from "Linear Perspective, Applied to the Art of Painting"

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Two women conversing on a street corner, from "Linear Perspective, Applied to the Art of Painting"

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

1841

Medium

Etching

Tags

Couples Men Women Dogs

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 5 5/16 × 6 3/8 in. (13.5 × 16.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

1783–1853 • Kingdom 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.

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