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View of Charlottenborg Palace in Copenhagen with the Old Botanical Garden and Figures
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View of Charlottenborg Palace in Copenhagen with the Old Botanical Garden and Figures

Medium

Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite; an incised construction line at lower left

Dimensions

sheet: 5 3/16 x 4 1/8 in. (13.1 x 10.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2008

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.