Clouds Heavy with Rain above Flyvesandsbakkerne and Lake Arresø

1838

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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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Title: Clouds Heavy with Rain above Flyvesandsbakkerne and Lake Arresø
Artist: Johan Thomas Lundbye (Danish, Kalundborg 1818–1848 Bedsted)
Date: 1838
Medium: Oil on paper, laid down on cardboard
Dimensions: 6 1/8 × 8 1/8 in. (15.6 × 20.6 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, 2016
Object Number: 2016.802.13
Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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