View over Hallingdal

Johan Christian Dahl

1844 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

This Romantic landscape combines Dahl’s affection for the scenery of his native Norway with the strain of deeply spiritual naturalism of which he was a chief exponent. Dahl recorded in his diary that he visited Hallingdal on August 23, 1844, on a sketching expedition in the company of his children and the painter Peder Balke. That October, Dahl offered this work to Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, an eminent archaeologist.

Artist

Johan Christian Dahl

Date

1844

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde, in memory of his brother, Karl Lunde, 2012