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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg: Forum of Nerva, Rome.  wikidata:Q116939809 reasonator:Q116939809
Artist
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg  (1783–1853)  wikidata:Q363823
 
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Alternative names
Eckersberg; C.W. Eckersberg; Christoffer Vilhelm Eckersberg; C. W. Eckersberg
Description Danish painter, university teacher and visual artist
Date of birth/death 2 January 1783 Edit this at Wikidata 22 July 1853 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Blaakrog, Varnaes (South Jutland, Denmark) Copenhagen, Denmark
Work location
Copenhagen, Rome
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artist QS:P170,Q363823
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Forum of Nerva, Rome.
label QS:Len,"Forum of Nerva, Rome."
label QS:Lda,"Prospekt af Mars Vainqueur, d.v.s Nervas Forum i Rom."
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
15 January 1814 C. W. Eckersberg writes in his diary (in Danish): “Finished the view of Mars Vainqueuer.” Mars Vainqueur means “The Victorious Mars”. The location is also called Mars Ultor and colloquially Nerva's Forum.
Date 15 January 1814
date QS:P571,+1814-01-15T00:00:00Z/11
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 43 cm (16.9 in); width: 33.5 cm (13.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,43U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,33.5U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history
  • Sold 19 January 1825 to Prince Christian, later Christian VIII (together with the painting “A view of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura”, today at the Hirschsprung Collection in Copenhagen).
  • Merchant Benny M. Goldschmidt. Mrs Alma Goldschmidt, her estate sale: Winkel & Magnussen 257, 1940 no. 10, reproduced p. 14.
  • Sold at Bruun Rasmussen Auctions on May 29, 2018 for DKK 1,500,000 (EUR 200,800) (Lot 879/214).
  • Sold at Bruun Rasmussen Auctions on November 29, 2022 for DKK 1,200,000 (Lot 911/​103-A).
Exhibition history
  • Kunstforeningen, “Udstillingen af C. W. Eckersbergs Malerier”, 1895 cat. no. 82.
  • Statens Museum for Kunst, “Eckersberg - En smuk løgn" ((The National Gallery of Denmark, “Eckersberg – A Beautiful Lie”), 2016, no. 29 reproduced p. 160 and 204. Here entitled "Muren omkring Augustus' Forum med Mars Ultor-templet og kirken Basilios campanile i Rom”. (The wall around Augustus' Forum with the Mars Ultor Temple and the Campanile of the Church of Basilio in Rome.) The text for no. 29 in the exhibition catalogue above mentions on p. 204 that the painting is probably painted before Eckersberg began to paint outdoors. He worked with light and shadow in this painting, where a clear contrast can be seen between the shady foreground and the glimpse of sun that falls through the wall's opening.
References
  • Philip Weilbach, a Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of C. W. Eckersberg p. 223 under “Prospecter fra Rom og Omegn, malede 1813–1816" entitled "Ruinerne af Nervas Forum” (The Ruins of Nerva's Forum).
  • Emil Hannover, a Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of C. W. Eckersberg no. 141 entitled “Prospekt af Mars Vainqueur, d.v.s Nervas Forum i Rom”.
  • Knud Voss,“Guldalderens malerkunst. Dansk arkitekturmaleri 1800–1850”, 1968, p. 136 and reproduced fig. 34 p. 139. Knud Voss mentions that Constantin Hansen deals with the same location. Presumably, he has learned of the place through Eckersberg. Hansen focuses on the ruins of the pillars with the Corinthian capitals, whereas Eckersberg accentuates the large wall that almost hides the pillars.
  • Torsten Gunnarsson, “Friluftsmåleri före friluftsmaleriet. Oljestudien i nordiskt landskapsmåleri 1800–1850”, in Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Ars Suetica 12, 1989 p. 76ff. Here the author mentions that Piranesi had painted the same site before Eckersberg, however, Piranesi did so from a different point of view, and the framing of the subject was also different. A contemporary of Eckersberg, the French painter Francois Marius Granet (1775–1849), also found the place interesting and made a drawing of the motif.
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