Lot 64: JOHAN FREDERICK ECKERSBERG

MENNESKER I FJELLANDSKAP (FIGURES IN A MOUNTAINOUS RIVER LANDSCAPE)
signed, inscribed and dated JF Eckersberg / Christiania 1862 lower left

87.5 by 123.5cm., 34½ by 48½in.

oil on canvas

Purchased by the grandfather of the present owner

The spectacular fjord scene shown in the present work is an excellent example of romantic Norwegian landscape painting, with its pastoral idyll on the left juxtaposed with the awe-inspiring, craggy cliffs on the right. After studying under Johannes Flintoe at the Royal School of Drawing in Kristiania between 1843-1846, Eckersberg travelled to Düsseldorf to study under J. W. Schirmer and his fellow countryman Hans Gude.