Sunset, Sorrento

Thomas Fearnley Norwegian
1834
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 806

As a disciple of Johan Christian Dahl, Thomas Fearnley was particularly attentive to the role of light in his nature studies, and this sunset rendered at Sorrento on May 22, 1834, attests to his outstanding mastery of its effects. After Fearnley’s premature death at the age of thirty-nine, Dahl wrote of his plein-air sketches that they were "better than his finished paintings, for in them he gave of his true self, as he was and as he felt when face-to-face with nature."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Sunset, Sorrento
  • Artist: Thomas Fearnley (Norwegian, Frederikshald 1802–1842 Munich)
  • Date: 1834
  • Medium: Oil on paper, laid down on card
  • Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. (14.6 x 25.7 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009
  • Object Number: 2009.400.57
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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