Norwegian Coast during a Storm

Details

JOHAN CHRISTIAN DAHL (1788-1857)
Norwegian Coast during a Storm
etching, 1819, on buff wove paper, a fine impression of this rare print, with wide margins, possibly the full sheet, in very good condition
Plate 117 x 150 mm., Sheet 174 x 210 mm.

Literature

Andresen 3

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Lot Essay

Hohan Christian Dahl was the preeminent Norwegian painter of the 19th Century and the first to achieve international recognition. The son of a fisherman in Bergen, he trained at the art academy in Copenhagen and later he travelled to Dresden, where he became a close friend of Caspar David Friedrich.

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