Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1783-1853
The Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo Seen from Villa Casale, Rome
1815
Graphite.
13 x 19 1/16 inches (330 x 485 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.75
Inscription: 

Signed and dated in pencil at lower right: "D. 6 Martii 1815 - Eckersberg". Inscribed in ink in lower center: "Et Partie af St. Giovani et Paulo - taget fra Villa Casale". Annotation on verso: "330".

Provenance: 
Sale, Copenhagen, 17 January 1854, catalogue p. 25, lot 3?; acquired by Michael Raffenb?, Copenhagen; Karl Mads?, Director of the National Gallery of Copenhagen 1911-1925; private collection; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names: 

Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 112, repr.
L'âge d'or de la peinture danoise : The Golden Age of Danish Painting. Paris : Jean-François Heim, 2012, Catalogue No 23, p. 12.

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