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Christen Købke
Gateway in the Via Sepulcralis in Pompeii1846

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Horizontal oil painting of ancient brick ruins flanking a stone-paved street under a clear blue sky, with a lone figure standing between the arched walls and hazy hills visible in the distance

Christen Købke, Gateway in the Via Sepulcralis in Pompeii, 1846, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 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, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Christen Købke
Denmark, Copenhagen, 1810-1848
Title
Gateway in the Via Sepulcralis in Pompeii
Place Made
Denmark, Copenhagen
Date Made
1846
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
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)
Credit Line
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
Accession Number
90.4
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected 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.

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