Feige Waterfall (Feigefossen), Lysterfjord, Norway
1848
Johan Christian Clausen Dahl
Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (Norwegian, 1788–1857)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Feige Waterfall (Feigefossen), Lysterfjord, Norway, 1848. Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (Norwegian, 1788–1857). Oil on canvas; 42 x 58 cm (16 9/16 x 22 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund 2019.76 Johan Christian Dahl painted this dramatic view of the Feige Waterfall at Lysterfjord, one of the most spectacular natural wonders in his homeland, at time a when Norwegians were trying to foster awareness of their identity as a distinct national culture. Dahl’s views of Norway played a crucial role in establishing his reputation as the leading Norwegian artist of the period and one of most important landscape painters of the Romantic era. Set against a magnificent mountain cliff, the waterfall empties into a broad fjord that stretches nearly 70 miles before reaching the ocean just north of Dahl’s hometown of Bergen.
- Maker/Artist
- Dahl, J. C.
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 42 x 58 cm (16 9/16 x 22 13/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed and dated lower right: "Dahl / 1848"
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 2019.76
- Credit Line
- Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund
- Exhibitions
- Sachsischer Kunstverin, Dresden, Germany (1848)., <em>Forests, </em>R<em>ocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection</em>. National Gallery, London, United Kingdom (June 22-September 18, 2011).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 220 19th Century European
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