Gateway in the Via Sepulcralis in Pompeii

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Gateway in the Via Sepulcralis in Pompeii

Denmark, Copenhagen, 1846
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 15 × 20 1/2 in. (38.1 × 52.07 cm) Frame: 20 × 26 × 1 1/2 in. (50.8 × 66.04 × 3.81 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the William Randolph Hearst Collection, Mr. and Mrs. John Jewett Garland, Mr. and Mrs. David T. Babcock, and Frank Heller by exchange (90.4)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Spira, Freyda, Stephanie Schrader, and Thomas Lederballe, editors. Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023.