Valley of Romsdalen (1857)
Johan Fredrik Eckersberg1857 · Landscape · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1870)
Specifications
- Year
- 1857
- Nationality / school
- Norwegian
- Lifespan
- 1822–1870
About the artwork
"Valley of Romsdalen" (1857) is a work by Johan Fredrik Eckersberg. Context for 1857: The invention of lithography around 1796 and its spread in these decades made printed images cheaper and more varied. The first half of the nineteenth century moved from Neoclassicism to Romanticism, which placed emotion, nature, and the sublime at the centre of painting. It is listed in the Landscape collection. The image is in landscape orientation. Landscape in brief: Landscape became an independent genre in European painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, while in East Asia it had long been central to ink painting. The invention of paint in tubes in the 1840s made it easier to work outdoors, and landscape became a main subject of Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism.
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About the artist
Norwegian, 1822–1870
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