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Christian August Lorentzen Danish, 1749-1828
Description
- Christian August Lorentzen
- Silke Saugen: auprès de la chûte de Hönefossen, Norwège (The Silke Saugen Sawmill by the Hönefossen Falls, Norway)
- signed C.A. Lorentzen l.r.
- oil on canvas
- 44.5 by 58.5cm., 17 1/2 by 23in.
Catalogue Note
Lorentzen and fellow Dane Erik Paulsen (1749-90) began travelling to Norway in 1788, recording the dramatic landscapes they found there. These were popularised as a series of prints (known as voyages pittoresques) made by Georg Haas (1751-1817) and Heinrich Grosch (1763-1843), which were often dedicated to the Norwegian and Danish Royal families. By contrast, the paintings, such as the present example, are extremely rare.
Lorentzen was a landscape painter and portraitist, and a teacher of influence at the Copenhagen Kunstakadamiet. His pupils included Martinus Rørbye, Matthias Stoltenberg, and most famously Johann Christian Dahl (see lots 302-304).
An aquatint (29 by 39cm.) after the present painting by Georg Haas is sold with this lot (fig. 1).