signed and dated lower left: ‘J Dahl 1840’, oil on canvas
210 x 310 mm.
Provenance
The Christiana Kuntsforening; Won by M. Thoresen in a lottery organised by the above in 1841; Karl P Wedel-Jagdberg, Christiana (Oslo) 1920 – 1937; by decent to his daughter Baroness Ninni Wedel, Bogstad, Oslo, 1937 – 1945 (her death); Most probably inherited by her daughter Louise Egeberg who subsequently sold it to C.W. Haarland, Stavanger, Norway, 1952 – 1982; by descent to A. Andersen, Oslo, 1982 - 2001
Literature
Marie Lǿdrup Bang, ‘Johan Christian Dahl 1788 – 1857, Life and Works’, Oslo, 1987, no. 915
Exhibited
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘Caspar David Friedrich: Moonwatchers’, 11th September – 11th November, 2001
Acquired by the The Barber Institute of Fine Art, The University of Birmingham
