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Asnæs Skov, Bay at Kalundborg Fjord
About the Artwork
Johan Thomas Lundbye belonged to the youngest generation of artists working during Denmark’s Golden Age, a period of unprecedented creative activity. This drawing depicts a wooded area on a narrow bay near the town where the artist grew up. Lundbye worked outdoors, directly from nature, aiming to create a work that conveyed his experience of nature. With exacting precision, he conveyed the scene’s solitude and featured a large dolmen, meant to allude to the region’s ancient past.
Inscriptions
Inscribed and signed, black ink, lower left: Landskab ved Kallundborg Fjord. Asnæs Skov. Dec 1839. Johan Th Lundbye; inscribed, black ink, lower right: 2/1 1840 tilf. Fuldmagtig Secher i Kanders; Stamped, on verso, black ink, lower left: mark of Kunstforeningen (Lugt 988c); inscribed, ink, lower left: Kunstforeningen København; inscribed, pencil, at center: 2/1 40 [illeg.] Secher; inscribed, pencil, lower right: 10; Watermark, at center: C&I HONIG / XX
Provenance
1839: Johan Thomas Lundbye, sold to the Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark 1839-1933: Kunstforeningen Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark October 19, 1933: (Kunstforeningen collection sale, V. Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, October 19, 1933, no. 571) 1933-2022: Private Collection, Nordjysk, Denmark 2022: (Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg, Germany), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH September 12, 2022-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Johan Thomas Lundbye (Danish, 1818–1848)
- Date
- 1839
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and gray and brown ink washes with arched framing line in pen and black ink, bordered in pink watercolor on modern cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 26 x 37.9 cm (10 1/4 x 14 15/16 in.); Matted: 36.2 x 48.9 cm (14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.); Image: 19.1 x 30 cm (7 1/2 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Alma Kroeger Fund
- Accession no.
- 2022.87
More by Johan Thomas Lundbye in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011241
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