Martinus Rørbye (b. Drammen 1803, d. Copenhagen 1848)
Purchased by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in November 2011.
Landscape, presumably from Vendsyssel, Northern Jutland. Unsigned. Watercolour on paper. 18.5×26 cm.
The landscape resembles other landscape studies Rørbye made in 1833 on his way to Frederikshavn to visit his brother.
Provenance: Winkel & Magnussen auction 256, 1940 no. 128a.
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Selected art, 28 November 2011