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MARTINUS CHRISTIAN WESSELTOFT RØRBYE (DRAMMEN 1803-COPENHAGEN 1848)
Lot 32

MARTINUS CHRISTIAN WESSELTOFT RØRBYE (DRAMMEN 1803-COPENHAGEN 1848)

Fiskere ved Limfjorden (Fishermen at Limfjorden)

Closed23 May 2024

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MARTINUS CHRISTIAN WESSELTOFT RØRBYE (DRAMMEN 1803-COPENHAGEN 1848)
Fiskere ved Limfjorden (Fishermen at Limfjorden)
dated and signed with artist's initials '1832./M.R.....' (on the rock, lower right)
oil on canvas
14 ¾ x 11 7/8 in. (37.5 x 30.2 cm.)

J. J. Holm, until April 1905.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1997, lot 89, as Baiting the Lines, Limfjorden.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

A related compositional sketch can be found in the artist's travel diary from 1830 (G. Nygaard, Maleren Martinus Rørbyes Rejsedagbog 1830, Copenhagen, 1930, p. 56).