location: Statens Museum for Kunst / material used: oil paint

instance of: painting (2,851) | study (1) | perspective box (1)

commissioned by: Mendel Levin Nathanson (2)

owned by: Frederik Moltke (5) | Adam Gottlob Moltke (3) | Paul Gauguin (1) | Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke (1) | Asbjørn Lunde (1)

movement: Flemish Baroque painting (5) | Baroque painting (3) | Italian Renaissance (3) | rococo (2) | Flemish Primitives (2) | High Renaissance (2) | Dutch Golden Age painting (2) | Romanticism (1) | Baroque (1) | Impressionism (1) | expressionism (1) | classicism (1) | Venetian school (1) | social realism (1)

genre: portrait (415) | landscape art (292) | religious art (175) | genre art (83) | still life (46) | mythological painting (44) | marine art (34) | group portrait (26) | self-portrait (25) | architectural painting (25) | battle painting (12) | history painting (10) | nude (9) | animal painting (9) | trompe-l'œil (5) | tronie (4) | allegory (3) | floral painting (3)

based on: Iliad (1) | Girl in a Picture Frame (1) | Virgin of the Rocks (1) | Portrait of Rembrandt with a gorget (1) | Entrance to an Inn in the Praestegarden at Hillested (1) | Sleeping Girl (1) | Landlig scene (1) | An Artist resting by the Roadside (1)

artist: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (87) | Nicolai Abildgaard (69) | Jens Juel (69) | anonymous (59) | Christian August Lorentzen (44) | Christen Købke (41) | P. C. Skovgaard (40) | Wilhelm Marstrand (38) | Vilhelm Hammershøi (37) | Constantin Hansen (37) | Vilhelm Kyhn (36) | Christian Albrecht Jensen (33) | Laurits Andersen Ring (32) | Hans Smidth (32) | Theodor Philipsen (31) | Erik Pauelsen (29) | Albert Gottschalk (28) | Johan Christian Dahl (28)

part of the series: Eruption of the Volcano Vesuvius (1)

depicts: man (112) | woman (96) | tree (66) | sky (64) | cloud (49) | dog (37) | house (24) | forest (23) | horse (22) | Jesus Christ (20) | Virgin Mary (20) | table (20) | group of humans (20) | girl (19) | chair (18) | sailing ship (18) | beach (17) | child (16)

collection: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (6) | Ministry of the State of Denmark (3) | The Royal Collection of Paintings and Sculptures (2) | private collection (1)

part of: Gift of 24 ethnographic paintings of Brazil and Africa (3) | Danish Culture Canon (1)

country of origin: Denmark (26) | United States of America (6) | Italy (5)

exhibition history: A beautiful lie - Eckersberg (17) | Johan Christian Dahl 1788-1857. Jubilee Exhibition 1988 (11) | J.C. Dahl in Denmark (9) | Images of an Era. Norway 1814 (8) | Europeana 280 (7) | Dansk Guldalder - Verdenskunst mellem to katastrofer (6) | J.C. Dahl – The Power of Nature (5) | Peder Balke: Vision and Revolution (5) | Dahl and Friedrich. Romantic Landscapes (3) | J.C. Dahl i Italien 1820-1821 (3) | 1814 – Spillet om Danmark og Norge (1) | 6th impressionist exhibition (1) | Image and Message: Cranach in the Service of the Court and the Reformation (1) | The Moon: From real travel to imaginary journeys (1)

main subject: Holy Family (8) | Adoration of the shepherds (6) | Judgement of Paris (5) | Madonna and Child (5) | crucifixion of Jesus (4) | entombment of Christ (4) | Baptism of Jesus (4) | Parable of the Prodigal Son (4) | flight into Egypt (4) | rest on the flight into Egypt (4) | Penitent Magdalene (4) | Descent from the Cross (4) | Jerome (3) | Last Supper (3) | Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (3) | portrait (3) | Annunciation (3) | Frederick V of Denmark (3)

location of final assembly: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (4)