Johan Christian Dahl
Copenhagen Harbor by Moonlight
184695.9 x 154 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated bottom right: JDahl 1846
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Christen Sveaas, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019
Provenance
The artist, Dresden, until 1853/4; commissioned by an unknown collector in 1824/5 as a pendant to "Tyrolean Landscape with a Waterfall" [1823, private collection; Bang 1987, no. 399], but left incomplete upon the patron's death; to Bull
his daughter and son-in-law, Caroline Elisabeth Dahl Bull and General Anders Ørsted Sandøe Bull, Christiania [Oslo], by 1854
their son, General Karl Siegwald Bull, Norway, in 1907
by descent through Bull family, Norway, until at least 1987
Christen Sveaas, Norway, by 2000–19
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Other works by Johan Christian Clausen Dahl
Two Towers in Copenhagen
1829
1829
View over Hallingdal
1844
1844
An Eruption of Vesuvius
1824
1824
Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset
1823
1823
Mother and Child by the Sea
1830
1830