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
Mother and Child by the Sea
1830
1830
An Eruption of Vesuvius
1824
1824
Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset
1823
1823