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Asnæs Skov, Bay at Kalundborg Fjord

1839

Johan Thomas Lundbye

(Danish, 1818–1848)

Denmark

Pen and black ink and gray and brown ink washes with arched framing line in pen and black ink, bordered in pink watercolor on modern cream laid paper

Sheet: 18.9 x 30 cm (7 7/16 x 11 13/16 in.)

Alma Kroeger Fund 2022.87

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

Copenhagen’s Kunstforeningen, an exhibition society for contemporary art, purchased this drawing from Lundbye shortly after its creation—a practice meant to extend the organization’s support of artists.

Description

Johan Thomas Lundbye belonged to the youngest generation of artists working during Denmark’s Golden Age, a period of unprecedented creative activity. This drawing depicts a wooded area on a narrow bay near the town where the artist grew up. Lundbye worked outdoors, directly from nature, aiming to create a work that conveyed his experience of nature. With exacting precision, he conveyed the scene’s solitude and featured a large dolmen, meant to allude to the region’s ancient past.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Inscribed and signed, black ink, lower left: Landskab ved Kallundborg Fjord. Asnæs Skov. Dec 1839. Johan Th Lundbye

Inscription

inscribed, black ink, lower right: 2/1 1840 tilf. Fuldmagtig Secher i Kanders

Inscription

Stamped, on verso, black ink, lower left: mark of Kunstforeningen (Lugt 988c)

Inscription

inscribed, ink, lower left: Kunstforeningen København

Inscription

inscribed, pencil, at center: 2/1 40 [illeg.] Secher

Inscription

inscribed, pencil, lower right: 10

Inscription

Watermark, at center: C&I HONIG / XX

Johan Thomas Lundbye

Danish painter, 1818-1848
Provenance
1839
Johan Thomas Lundbye, sold to the Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1839-1933
Kunstforeningen Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
October 19, 1933
(Kunstforeningen collection sale, V. Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, October 19, 1933, no. 571)
1933-2022
Private Collection, Nordjysk, Denmark
2022
(Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg, Germany), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
September 12, 2022-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Arbejder af Johan Thomas Lundbye: Udstillede I Kunstforeningen I København. Exh. Cat. Copenhagen: Kunstforeningen, 1893 Mentioned: p. 27, no. 178 (possibly)
Madsen, Karl. Johan Thomas Lundbye, 1818–1848. Copenhagen: Kunstforeningen, 1895 Reproduced: p. 64; Mentioned: p. 65
Fortegnelse over Kunstforeningens Samling af tegninger og akvareller. Copenhagen: V. Winkel & Magnussen, 1933 Mentioned: p. 47, no. 571; Reproduced: p. 25
Madsen, Karl. Johan Thomas Lundbye, 1818–1848. Copenhagen: Glydendalske, 1949 Mentioned: p. 88–89; Reproduced: p. 96
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.87