The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura

1824

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783–1853)

Status: On View, Gallery 221
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Title: The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura
Place: Denmark (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1824
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 57.7 × 78.8 cm (22 5/8 × 31 in.); Framed: 76.2 × 97.2 cm (30 × 38 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: European Painting Purchase fund; through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1986.991
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Emile Hanover, The Painter C. W. Eckersberg (Copenhagen, 1898), p. 357, no. 324.

Copenhagen, Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the Charlottenborg Palace, 1825, cat. 12 or 13.
Copenhagen, Fine Arts Society, C. W. Eckersberg’s Malerier, October–November 1895, cat. 173.

Sold by the artist to Jacobsen, Denmark, August 7, 1824 [according to Eckersberg’s daybook citied in Copenhagen 1895]; by descent to his son, W. Jacobsen and his daughter, B. Jacobsen, Denmark, by 1895 [lent by them to Copengagen 1895]. Eduard Ree, Copenhagen; sold, Ree estate sale, October 16-18, 1918, lot 17. Sold, Arne Bruun Rasmussen Kunstauktioner, Copenhagen, November 29, 1985, lot 29. Richard Feigen, New York, by 1985; sold to the Art Institute, 1986.

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