# View of a Street in Østerbro outside Copenhagen. Morning Light

- By: Christen Købke (Danish, 1810–1848)
- Date: 1836
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: height 106.5 cm, width 161.5 cm, height 118.1 cm, width 173.3 cm
- Culture: Danish
- Museum: [SMK – National Gallery of Denmark](https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMS844)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iip-thumb.smk.dk/iiif/jp2/8336h501h_kms844.tif.reconstructed.tif.jp2/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Købke has turned an everyday scene into a monumental image. The scene is from rural surroundings outside of Copenhagen, specifically Østerbrogade by the present-day Lille Triangel. Here, Købke has captured a number of everyday early-morning scenes – fishwives and peasants on their way to market, citizens taking a morning walk, and cows being taking to pasture on the Commons. Here, Købke focuses on a bourgeois reality otherwise avoided in his images. Yet the crucial, all-important element of the painting is its depiction of the morning light falling from the right-hand side upon the trees, road, and water pump.