The Russian Ship of the Line "Asow" and a Frigate at Anchor in the Roads of Elsinore

Updated on Dec 31, 2024

Edit

Comment

Year 1828 Created 1828		Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions 63 cm × 51 cm (25 in × 20 in) Location National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen Artist Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Similar At a Window in the Artist, Bella and Hanna The Elde, A View through Three of t, Woman Standing in Front of a, The Marble Steps Leading t

The Russian Ship of the line "Asow" and a Frigate at Anchor in the roads of Elsinore is a painting by the Danish painter, C. W. Eckersberg. It was painted in 1828.

The work is not an accurate rendition of the scene but a construction, using more than one event as the basis for the painting. For instance, Eckersberg moved the scene from Copenhagen where he had inspected such ships to Elsinore as is evident in the picture as Kronborg is seen in the background.

Eckersberg was very meticulous in preparing the painting, however. He studied these ship types beforehand, borrowing technical drawings from the naval dockyard. The process is documented in Eckersberg's diary.

Kasper Monrad: "Udsigt gennem tre buer – Dansk-tyske kunstnermøder i Danmark, Tyskland og Italien", in William Gelius and Stig Miss (eds.): Under samme himmel – Land og by i dansk og tysk kunst 1800-1850, Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen 2000

References

The Russian Ship of the Line "Asow" and a Frigate at Anchor in the Roads of Elsinore Wikipedia

(Text) CC BY-SA

Read more

References