The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 28, 2024
Asnæs Skov, Bay at Kalundborg Fjord
1839
Location: not on view
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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.- 1839Johan Thomas Lundbye, sold to the Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark1839-1933Kunstforeningen Collection, Copenhagen, DenmarkOctober 19, 1933(Kunstforeningen collection sale, V. Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, October 19, 1933, no. 571)1933-2022Private Collection, Nordjysk, Denmark2022(Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg, Germany), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHSeptember 12, 2022-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- 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. 65Fortegnelse over Kunstforeningens Samling af tegninger og akvareller. Copenhagen: V. Winkel & Magnussen, 1933 Mentioned: p. 47, no. 571; Reproduced: p. 25Madsen, Karl. Johan Thomas Lundbye, 1818–1848. Copenhagen: Glydendalske, 1949 Mentioned: p. 88–89; Reproduced: p. 96
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