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View of the Barrière de la Villette in Paris
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View of the Barrière de la Villette in Paris

Medium

Pen and gray ink, over graphite; framing lines in pen and gray ink

Dimensions

Sheet: 8 1/2 x 10 11/16 in. (21.6 x 27.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013

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.