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The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura
Provenance
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.
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.
Publications
Emile Hanover, The Painter C. W. Eckersberg (Copenhagen, 1898), p. 357, no. 324.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783–1853)
- Date
- 1824
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 57.7 × 78.8 cm (22 5/8 × 31 in.); Framed: 76.2 × 97.2 cm (30 × 38 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- Denmark
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- European Painting Purchase fund; through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Accession no.
- 1986.991
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001157
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