The Sword of Damocles; verso: Sketches of Man's Head and of a Figure with a Raised Arm

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Artist: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, Blåkrog 1783–1853 Copenhagen)
Date: 1805
Medium: Pen and black ink, over graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 12 9/16 x 10 in. (31.9 x 25.4 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2011
Accession no.: 2011.253a, b

The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1824 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00001157
Relais, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris (recto); Scene from the Life of Odysseus (verso)
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1812 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006116
Vessel of the Russian Line (Vaisseau de ligne russe)
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1827 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006215
View from the Battery toward the City
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1836 · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00011173

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.