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Description: signed and dated Dahl 1828 l.c.

oil on canvas

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Dimensions: 31 by 24.5cm., 12 1/4 by 9 3/4 in.

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Provenance: PROPERTY FROM A NORWEGIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

Auksjonsforretning, Oslo
Nils Onsager, Oslo (1937)

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Exhibited: Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, J.C. Dahl's Verk, 1937, no. 281

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Published: Johan H. Langaard, J. C. Dahl's Verk, Oslo, 1937, no. 281, catalogued
Andreas Aubert, Maleren Johan Christian Dahl, Kristiania, 1920, p. 452
Cicerone, year IX, 1917, pp. 314-15
Marie Lødrup Bang, Johan Christian Dahl: 1788-1857: Life and Works, Oslo, 1987, vol. II, p. 172, no. 505, catalogued; vol. III, pl. 206, illustrated (inverted)

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Notes: Although dating the present work to 1825 on the basis that Krokkleiva was a popular tourist attraction, and that Dahl may have been inspired by other artists' sketches and prints of the same view, Bang suggests that the date shown may be a 'smudged' 1828. Dahl appears first to have sketched the subject on his first return trip to Norway in 1826, and painted another in 1828 (Bang, no. 589).