location: Statens Museum for Kunst / material used: canvas

instance of: painting (2,706) | study (1)

commissioned by: Mendel Levin Nathanson (2)

owned by: Adam Gottlob Moltke (3) | Frederik Moltke (3) | Paul Gauguin (1)

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

genre: portrait (383) | landscape art (257) | religious art (163) | genre art (73) | still life (45) | mythological painting (41) | marine art (31) | group portrait (26) | self-portrait (25) | architectural painting (22) | battle painting (12) | history painting (10) | nude (9) | animal painting (7) | trompe-l'œil (5) | allegory (3) | tronie (2) | cityscape (2)

based on: Iliad (1) | Girl in a Picture Frame (1) | Virgin of the Rocks (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 (85) | Nicolai Abildgaard (69) | Jens Juel (68) | anonymous (51) | Christian August Lorentzen (44) | Christen Købke (41) | P. C. Skovgaard (40) | Wilhelm Marstrand (38) | Vilhelm Hammershøi (37) | Constantin Hansen (37) | Vilhelm Kyhn (34) | Christian Albrecht Jensen (33) | Hans Smidth (32) | Theodor Philipsen (31) | Laurits Andersen Ring (31) | Erik Pauelsen (29) | Albert Gottschalk (28) | Johan Lundbye (22)

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

depicts: man (89) | woman (83) | tree (54) | sky (53) | cloud (41) | dog (31) | house (21) | Jesus Christ (20) | table (19) | girl (18) | forest (18) | chair (18) | Virgin Mary (17) | group of humans (16) | horse (15) | child (15) | beach (15) | sailing ship (15)

collection: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (5) | Ministry of the State of Denmark (3) | The Royal Collection of Paintings and Sculptures (2) | private collection (1)

part of: Danish Culture Canon (1)

country of origin: Denmark (22) | United States of America (6) | Italy (5)

exhibition history: A beautiful lie - Eckersberg (17) | Images of an Era. Norway 1814 (8) | Europeana 280 (7) | Dansk Guldalder - Verdenskunst mellem to katastrofer (5) | Johan Christian Dahl 1788-1857. Jubilee Exhibition 1988 (2) | J.C. Dahl in Denmark (2) | J.C. Dahl – The Power of Nature (2) | 6th impressionist exhibition (1) | J.C. Dahl i Italien 1820-1821 (1) | The Moon: From real travel to imaginary journeys (1)

main subject: Holy Family (7) | Adoration of the shepherds (6) | 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) | Annunciation (3) | Frederick V of Denmark (3) | Christian VII of Denmark (3) | Road to Emmaus appearance (3) | Judgement of Paris (3) | Madonna and Child (3)

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

fabrication method: oil painting (4)