Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1824
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
The Cloisters, San Lorenzo fuori le mura is a 1824 oil by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, a Romanticism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
A muted sun casts long shadows over worn stone steps and a low doorway. The brick arches look heavy and old, their edges soft in the light. Eckersberg paints Rome’s faded edges, not its famous squares. Here, quiet light picks out cracks in the wall and a single wooden door left ajar. The color stays cool—no bright golds or blues, just grays and off-whites that feel honest. Next time you’re in Chicago, seek it out at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sold by the artist to Jacobsen, Denmark, August 7, 1824 [according to Eckersberg's daybook citied in Copenhagen 1895]; by descent to his son, W. Jacobsen and his daughter, B. Jacobsen, Denmark, by 1895 [lent by them to Copengagen 1895]. Eduard Ree, Copenhagen; sold, Ree estate sale, October 16-18, 1918, lot 17. Sold, Arne Bruun Rasmussen Kunstauktioner, Copenhagen, November 29, 1985, lot 29. Richard Feigen, New York, by 1985; sold to the Art Institute, 1986.
Copenhagen, Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the Charlottenborg Palace, 1825, cat. 12 or 13. Copenhagen, Fine Arts Society, C. W. Eckersberg’s Malerier, October–November 1895, cat. 173.
Emile Hanover, The Painter C. W. Eckersberg (Copenhagen, 1898), p. 357, no. 324.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (2 January 1783 – 22 July 1853) was a Danish painter.
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