Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1815 - The Israelites Resting after the Crossing of the Red Sea - fine art print

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In 1812 Eckersberg was commissioned to paint the Israelites’ crossing of the Red Sea, when Moses and the Jewish people escaped Pharaoh’s soldiers.

The painting became Eckersberg key commission while in Rome 1813-16. Rather than the crossing itself, however, he elected to depict the following scene, showing the Israelistes resting after their crossing. As he said in a letter, he wanted to avoid “the Mystery of the narrative”. The supernatural was not his forte.

A biblical scene shown within a real landscape The painting demonstrates Eckersberg’s ability to group many figures in a natural manner. He also introduced something entirely new to a biblical scene. The people are shown within a real landscape setting based on studies of nature, and painstaking observations served as the basis for the depiction of the morning sun and cloud formations.

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The Israelites Resting after the Crossing of the Red Sea was created by the painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg in 1815. The work of art was painted with the dimensions: 229,3 x 308,3 x 14 cm and was crafted with the technique of oil on canvas. This work of art is included in the Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark)'s collection in Copenhagen, Denmark. With courtesy of: National Gallery of Denmark (public domain).The creditline of the artpiece is: . Besides this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has a side ratio of 1.4 : 1, which means that the length is 40% longer than the width. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was a male painter from Denmark, whose artistic style can be classified as Realism. The artist was born in 1783 in Blaakrog, Varnaes, South Jutland, Denmark and died at the age of 70 in the year 1853 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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