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The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg · 1824
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by the artist to Jacobsen, Denmark, August 7, 1824 [according to Eckersberg's daybook citied in Copenhagen 1895]; by descent to his son, W. Jacobsen and his daughter, B. Jacobsen, Denmark, by 1895 [lent by them to Copengagen 1895]. Eduard Ree, Copenhagen; sold, Ree estate sale, October 16-18, 1918, lot 17. Sold, Arne Bruun Rasmussen Kunstauktioner, Copenhagen, November 29, 1985, lot 29. Richard Feigen, New York, by 1985; sold to the Art Institute, 1986.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Copenhagen, Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the Charlottenborg Palace, 1825, cat. 12 or 13.
- Copenhagen, Fine Arts Society, C. W. Eckersberg’s Malerier, October–November 1895, cat. 173.
Literature
Published references
- Emile Hanover, The Painter C. W. Eckersberg (Copenhagen, 1898), p. 357, no. 324.
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