Description:

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

ACQUIRED BY THE BARBER INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM