Clouds Heavy with Rain above Flyvesandsbakkerne and Lake Arresø
Johan Thomas Lundbye Danish
Not on view
Arresø, the largest lake in Denmark, is located on the island of Zealand. On September 3, 1838, two days after his twentieth birthday, Lundbye deftly sketched this scene of rain falling from massive late summer clouds over distant hills across the water. The disparity of scale between the natural phenomenon and the little sheet of paper on which the artist painted it is striking. The picture was likely completed in several minutes.
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