New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

139 works

Featured

Pen and wash drawing of cannons on a grassy battery overlooking a harbor with sailboats and a distant city skyline.

View from the Battery toward the City

1836

Grey wash drawing of people in period dress walking a tree-lined avenue past low buildings and a fence, sign reading Champs-E

Relais, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris (recto); Scene from the Life of Odysseus (verso)

1812

Vessel of the Russian Line (Vaisseau de ligne russe)

1827

Engraving of a warship deck with a large ship's wheel, sailors, rigging, and sails overhead, with the sea beyond.

The Deck of a Warship

1834

Pen and watercolor drawing of two women in striped dresses looking out a window, with an easel and stool in the room.

Ved et vindue i kunstnerens atelier

1852

Pen and brown wash drawing of the warship Dronning Maria on timber supports in a shipyard, with workers around it.

The ship of the line Dronning Maria on the stocks

1824

Sepia wash drawing of a Copenhagen harbor promenade with cannons, strollers, benches and ships on the water.

The Harbor of Copenhagen from the Esplanade between Langelinie Park and Toldboden or the Customs House

1809

Pen and gray wash drawing of a woman with a bucket on a cobbled street beside a high wall, with pedestrians and trees behind.

View of Charlottenborg Palace in Copenhagen with the Old Botanical Garden and Figures

ca. 1838-41

Grey wash drawing of a classical scene with soldiers, grieving women and a fallen figure before a long city wall.

The Surviving Horatian

first half 19th century

Pen drawing of Damocles raising his arm beneath a suspended sword while King Dionysius watches in a draped hall.

The Sword of Damocles; verso: Sketches of Man's Head and of a Figure with a Raised Arm

1805

Grey wash drawing of a classical rotunda temple with columns, ruins in the foreground, and a seated woman with a child.

View of the Barrière de la Villette in Paris

1810-13