Johan Christian Dahl
Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset
182338.1 x 35.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated bottom center: Dahl 1823
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Christen Sveaas, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019
Provenance
The artist, Dresden, until 1824; sold, probably in January, to Hillig
Dr. Christian Gottfried Hillig, Leipzig, c. 1824–died 1844
his estate sale, Rudolph Weigel's Kunstauction, Leipzig, 26 May 1862, nr. 4, as "Landschaft; ein Sonnenuntergang")
private collection, Leipzig, acquired in Leipzig in the 1920s
his heir, Germany, until 2005
sale, Sotheby's, London, 14 June 2005, nr. 152, for £170,400 [$307,802]
Christen Sveaas, Norway, by 2007–19
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Other works by Johan Christian Clausen Dahl
Mother and Child by the Sea
1830
1830
An Eruption of Vesuvius
1824
1824
Eruption of Vesuvius
1823
1823
Dresden in moonlight
1843
1843
Cloud study
1832
1832