Drawing to Define a New Denmark

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 Curatorial Conversation

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish (Blåkrog 1783-1853 Copenhagen), At a Window in the Artist's Studio, 1852, Drawing
Pen and grey ink and brown wash over graphite framed in light blue watercolor, 10 13/16 × 9 1/8 in. (27.4 × 23.1 cm)
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

DATE/TIME
January 23, 2023; 10:30 am
[doors open at 10:00 am] 

 LOCATION
Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall - Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, NY
(Please use Education Center entrance at 81st Street & Fifth Avenue)

VIEW THE RECORDING OF THE EVENT

"Christen Købke and Romantic Nationalism"
Freyda Spira, Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale University Art Gallery 

"Balancing Act: Perspective and Science in Eckersberg's Drawings"
Roberta Olson, Curator of Drawings Emerita, New-York Historical Society,
and Professor of Art History Emerita, Wheaton College, Massachusetts 

"Siting the viewer: position and representation in Danish Golden Age drawing"
Thomas Lederballe, Senior Research Curator, National Gallery of Denmark 

"Looking Out/Gazing In: Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Danish Artists"
Stephanie Schrader, Curator of Drawings, J. Paul Getty Museum  

This event is sponsored by CHRISTIE'S

This event is organized in partnership with The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Mark your calendars for the related exhibition from January 26 to April 16, 2023
Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, NY

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