Asnæs Skov, Bay at Kalundborg Fjord
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and gray and brown ink washes with arched framing line in pen and black ink, bordered in pink watercolor on modern cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 26 x 37.9 cm (10 1/4 x 14 15/16 in.); Matted: 36.2 x 48.9 cm (14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.); Image: 19.1 x 30 cm (7 1/2 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- Drawing
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Denmark
About
Johan Thomas Lundbye belonged to the youngest generation of artists working during Denmark’s Golden Age, a period of unprecedented creative activity. This drawing depicts a wooded area on a narrow bay near the town where the artist grew up. Lundbye worked outdoors, directly from nature, aiming to create a work that conveyed his experience of nature. With exacting precision, he conveyed the scene’s solitude and featured a large dolmen, meant to allude to the region’s ancient past.
