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Feige Waterfall (Feigefossen), Lysterfjord, Norway
Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (Norwegian, 1788–1857)
1848
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 42 x 58 cm (16 9/16 x 22 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Norway
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Johan Christian Dahl painted this dramatic view of the Feige Waterfall at Lysterfjord, one of the most spectacular natural wonders in his homeland, at time a when Norwegians were trying to foster awareness of their identity as a distinct national culture. Dahl’s views of Norway played a crucial role in establishing his reputation as the leading Norwegian artist of the period and one of most important landscape painters of the Romantic era.
