C. W. Eckersberg (b. Blåkrog near Aabenraa 1783, d. Copenhagen 1853)
Purchased by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in November 2011.
“En anden Del af Via Sacra, som her gaaer forbi Romulus og Remus Templet, der nu danner Vestibulen til Kirken St. Cosmus og Damianus”. Another part of Via Sacra that goes by the temple of Romulus and Remus, now the hallway to the church Saints Cosmus and Damianus. 1813–1816. Signed Eckersberg pinx. Oil on canvas. 32×43 cm.
Philip Weilbach, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of C. W. Eckersberg p. 222 under “Views from Rome and the surburbs, painted 1813–1816”.
Emil Hannover, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of C. W. Eckersberg no. 192.
Exhibited: Kunstforeningen 1828 no. 155. Charlottenborg, “Sønderjysk Kunstudstilling”, 1937 no. 85. Thorvaldsens Museum, “Eckersberg i Rom”, 1983 no. 20, reproduced p. 99.
Literature: Peter Michael Hornung og Kasper Monrad, “C. W. Eckersberg - dansk malerkunsts fader”, København 2005, pp. 143.
Provenance: Mrs Seidelin, Roskilde.
Eckersberg writes in his diary on the 5th of January 1853 (in Danish): “Visited judge Collin this morning and brought him two drawings of the paintings that ”Kunstforeningen“ bought representing Saints Cosmo e Damiano and the interior of Colosseo”.
See lot 13 for the drawing for this painting mentioned in the diary.
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Selected art, 28 November 2011